Kristin Lavransdatter: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (Three volumes in one)

Three volumes in one.

This Norwegian masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Undset tells the story of Kristin Lavransdatter as she lives her life in fourteenth-century Norway.

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally’s award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty.

The book, out of print in the United States since 1927, renews its hold on generations of readers.