Product Description: Obra cumbre de la escritora noruega Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), Cristina, hija de Lavrans está considerada la mejor novela histórica del siglo XX. Narra la vida de Cristina, una joven inmersa en un mundo de pasiones y desesperanzas...read more

Product Description: «,Había aceptado como su destino, destino que debía soportar pacíficamente y sin flaquear, que todo descansara sobre ella. También se había esforzado en ser paciente y aceptar sin flaquezas las condiciones de su vida todas las veces que sentía que había un nuevo hijo en sus entrañas: siempre, siempre...read more

Product Description: The four stories are Selma Broter, Thjodolf, Miss SmithTellefsen, and Simonsen.

More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar's Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country's history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor -- until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness.   First published in 1909, Gunnar's Daughter was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, Gunnar's Daughter is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time -- and in ours -- as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In this compelling drama about fidelity, sorrow and forgiveness, Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset tells the story of Ida Elisabeth, who marries her teenage sweetheart, Frithjof, in an effort to redeem her reputation. Early in their marriage, she realizes that her charming husband is incapable of supporting the family and she sews dresses to make ends meet...read more

Product Description: When Jenny was published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral — “this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know.” The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration but ultimately betrays her own ambitions and ideals...read more

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[Read by Tony Roberts] After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, Producer. A natural born wheeler-dealer, he lands not only a major studio deal but also a gorgeous actress girlfriend.It isn't long before Michael Vincent is one of the most successful producers in town, given his knack for bringing in films under budget -- not too difficult when youre willing to lie, seduce, intimidate, and even kill to get what you want. But some of the people from his past have long memories and a far reach, and now it's Michael's turn to watch his back. Because even in the land of make-believe, certain enemies -- and their bullets -- are very real. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures...read more

A Nobel prize winner in 1928, this trilogy deals with the life of a Scandinavian woman in the fourteenth century

Product Description: The Cross' is the third in the trilogy of historical novels called Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive...read more

Product Description: This vintage volume contains Sigrid Undset’s seminal trilogy, "Kristin Lavransdatter". Undset interlaces the political, social, and religious past, with day-to-day familial life - in order to present a vibrant and profound illustration of fourteenth-century Norway...read more

Product Description: The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures...read more

A masterful historical epic by the Nobel Prize-winning Scandinavian author deals with the life of a Scandinavian woman in the fourteenth century, in an omnibus edition that brings together the various novels in the saga, which chronicles Kristin's life from her youth, through her tumultuous marriage, to their later estrangement. Original.

Insight into the medieval man is given in this novel about the adventures of Olav Audunsson in thirteenth-century Norway

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