Word: undset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late, famed Nobel prizewinner Undset (she died in 1949) writes of desperate Norwegian spinsters who are roughly used by all who know them, of babies who bring brief happiness to love-starved households and then sicken and die, of people who hesitate to rescue others for fear of being responsible for the lives they save. The conclusion of each sweetly-sad story is usually damp with tears: Thjodolf ends with its heroine reeling to her bed, where "the weeping came, bitter and burning"; Simonsen ends with its hero on a train speeding away from his loved ones forever: "He wiped...
FOUR STORIES (245 pp.)-Sigrid Undset -Knopf...
British Author Smith, who died early this year, deals with the Little Karoo, an isolated South African plateau peopled by pious, hardfisted Boer farmers who are as trapped by their environment and culture as any of Author Undset's bedeviled Norwegians. For them, too, "man is distant, but God is near." In The Miller, a baffled man expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion...
...Exodus, Uris (2) 3. Lolita, Nabokov (4) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 6. From the Terrace, O'Hara (7) 7. Mountolive, Durrell 8. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence 9. Trumbull Park, Brown 10. Four Stories, Undset NONFICTION 1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1) 2. Only in America, Golden (2) 3. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (5) 4. What We Must Know About Com munism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (3) 5. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (7) 6. Elizabeth...
...started with brave promises. Early in the game, B-o-M Founder Harry Scherman offered readers "the outstanding book published each month"; in practice, this led to the selection of such books as Rol-vaag's Giants in the Earth, Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln, Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. The club's sights have come down a bit. A B-o-M choice is now just a book that the club's five judges* happen to "like very much, for any reason at all." Among books so chosen: The Battle h the Payoff, by Ralph...