Word: kristine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company with a good many contemporary European novelists, Sigrid Undset has a faculty for making the life of the past appear rich and meaningful in comparison with the involved perplexities of the present. Her three-volume historical romance, Kristin Lavransdatter, pictured a medieval Norway that was brutal and hard, but one in which people fitted into the few simple grooves that society provided and fulfilled their destinies with dramatic symmetry. A prime example of historical fiction, its elaborate documentation artfully grained into the narrative, that book became a best seller (204,000 copies) in the U. S. when...
...ELISABETH-Sigrid Undset-Knopf ($2.50). Story of modern marriage guaranteed complete in one volume, by the prolific authoress of Kristin Lavransdatter...
Authoress Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928) with her tril- ogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. She was the third Norwegian to win it. (Others: Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1903; Knut Hamsun, 1920.) A convert to Roman Catholicism, she was decorated "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by Pope Pius XI. She has also written Jenny...