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Kristin Lavransdatter, I: the Wreath

Kristin Lavransdatter, I: the Wreath( )
Author: Undset, Sigrid
Translator: Nunnally, Tiina
Illustrator: Hische, Jessica
Series title:Penguin Drop Caps Ser.
ISBN:978-0-14-312485-6
Publication Date:Aug 2014
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Penguin Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $31.00
Book Description:

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers-featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.499 x 7.917 x 1.092 Inches
Book Weight:0.796 Pounds
Author Biography
Undset, Sigrid (Author)


Sigrid Undset was the daughter of archeologist Ingvald Undset. Cultural, autobiographical, and religious topics constitute a large and interesting portion of her fiction, which in Norway is categorized according to the time of action: medieval or modern. Jenny (1911), an idealistic and tragic love story, is one of the latter novels. Undset's comprehensive knowledge of medieval Scandinavian culture has its literary monuments in Kristin Lavransdatter (1920--22) and The Master of Hestviken (1925--27), historical novels that depict life in the Norwegian Middle Ages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

Norwegian criticism of Sigrid Undset's writing centers on her religiosity (she became a conservative, almost reactionary Catholic in Lutheran Norway in the 1920s; she possesses an intensity of belief that is rather naturally expressed in the medieval novels. Yet while she has written religious polemics, the medieval novels are not tendentious. In fact, the central motifs are eroticism, marriage, and family life, in short, the full life of a medieval woman who sees herself in the light of contemporary Christian beliefs. These novels are great, realistic delineations of medieval personalities. During World War II she escaped the German occupation of Norway and fled to America, where she wrote her autobiographical Happy Times in Norway (1942).

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