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Title details for Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - Wait list

Kristin Lavransdatter

1-3 in series

by Sigrid Undset
Tiina Nunnally
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"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."
— Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs
"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." — Montreal Star
"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." — Commonweal
"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."
— New York Herald Tribune
"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be."
— Ruth Suckow in the Des Moines Register

  • Creators

  • Series

    Kristin Lavransdatter

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 28, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593862698
      • File size: 1358955 KB
      • Duration: 47:11:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER is a masterpiece of storytelling. It was published in 1922, and its author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Her work has lost none of its power or appeal since. That the 1997 Tiina Nunnally translation is now available as an audiobook is a literary event, since an immersive saga of such length and depth will be particularly appealing to many in this format. Kristin is a fourteenth-century Norwegian landowner's daughter. Undset created a historical world around her as fascinating and accessible as that in Mantel's WOLF HALL. Narrator Erin Bennett has prepared meticulously and makes this distant world immediate and real, and the fates of myriad characters inexpressibly believable and moving. Her pacing is compelling, and her emotional range impressive. Brava. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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