New Releases by Sigrid Undset

"Nordisk jul" er en samling af nordiske julefortællinger. Nogle af Nordens største fortællere beretter her om alt, der vedrører julen. Der er opbyggelige fortællinger om medmenneskelighed, mirakler og tro, mørkere og hjerteskærende fortællinger, der minder os om vigtigheden af medmenneskelighed i julen, fortællinger, hvor gamle fjendskaber sættes til side, så der opstår en mulighed for forsoning og forståelse julenat, fortællinger om julens forventninger, skuffelser og glæder, om julegilder, juleforberedelser og ikke mindst julegaver. Glædelig jul! Indhold: Den hellige nat – Hulda Lütken En juleaften – Marie Bregendahl Et julegilde – Knut Hamsun Fred på jorden – Selma Lagerlöf I juletravlheden – Marie Bregendahl I kupéen – Victoria Benedictsson Julefred – Sigrid Undset Julegaver – Herman Bang Karens jul – Amalie Skram Legenden om juleroserne – Selma Lagerlöf Pelsen – Hjalmar Söderberg

Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife continues Sigrid Undset's sweeping saga of Kristin's life in medieval Norway. In this second volume, Kristin faces the realities of marriage and motherhood after defying her family's wishes to marry Erlend, a man of questionable character. As she grapples with the burdens of domestic life, love, and loyalty, Kristin's spiritual struggles intensify, leading her to reflect on sin, redemption, and the complexities of human relationships. Rich with historical detail and emotional depth, this novel further explores the intricate balance between personal desire and moral responsibility in Kristin's life.

Cristina Lavransdatter, al cumplir quince años de edad, es prometida en casamiento a Simón Andresseon, hombre de rica herencia. Lavrans Bjoergulfsoen, padre de Cristina, es un hombre honorable, justo, y apreciado por todos aquellos que lo conocen. Desea lo mejor para su hija y su descendencia. Pero estos anhelos se verán puestos en cuestión por Cristina, una joven tan apasionada como rebelde, que desafiará los deseos paternos. Internada en un convento, su vida cambiará para siempre cuando en una escapada conoce al tenaz y encantador Erlend. Sumérgete en el corazón de la Edad Media con la obra maestra de Sigrid Undset, considerada una de las mejores novelas históricas del siglo XX. Cristina, hija de Lavrans cuenta la vida desde la niñez hasta la muerte de uno de los personajes más complejos y vigorosos de la literatura universal. Niña sagaz, joven apasionada, esposa ardorosa, madre impetuosa y creyente devota, su periplo atraviesa todo el siglo XIV, un tiempo en el que la fe, el pecado, la culpa, el honor, las promesas, los odios, las pasiones, las traiciones, las lealtades y el amor conjugaban un mundo cuyas tragedias y alegrías se vivían con la plenitud de quienes se sabían hijos de Dios. «[Mi heroína favorita de ficción] es la tenaz, sensual, devastadora y, en definitiva, sólida Cristina Lavransdatter, de Sigrid Undset. La trilogía de Cristina merece muchas relecturas. De inmediato, uno se identifica de alguna manera con esta hija de la Noruega medieval; pronto uno la compadece en sus sufrimientos. (...) Su fe y lealtad la hacen muy hermosa para mí». William T. Vollman The New York Times

"Olavinlapset" – Sigrid Undset (käännös Impi Sirkka). Julkaisija - Good Press. Good Press on moneen tyylilajiin keskittynyt laajamittainen julkaisija. Pyrimme julkaisemaan klassikoita ja kaunokirjallisuutta sekä vielä löytämättömiä timantteja. Tuotamme kirjat jotka palavat halusta tulla luetuksi. Good Press painokset ovat tarkasti editoitu ja formatoitu vastaamaan nykyajan lukijan tarpeita ottaen huomioon kaikki e-lukijat ja laitteet. Tavoitteemme on luoda lukijaystävällisiä e-kirjoja, saatavilla laadukkaassa digitaalisessa muodossa.

Step into a world of passion, faith, and timeless love with "The Bridal Wreath" by Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset. Once lost to time, this literary gem has been lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions, making it a must-have for both casual readers and collectors of classic literature. Set against the backdrop of medieval Norway, this captivating tale follows the journey of Kristin Lavransdatter, a young woman torn between duty and desire. As she navigates the complexities of love, honor, and faith, Kristin's story unfolds with emotional depth and historical richness, offering readers a profound exploration of the human spirit. What makes "The Bridal Wreath" truly unique is its ability to transcend time, capturing the essence of universal themes that resonate with readers today. This edition is not just a reprint; it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for future generations to cherish. Don't miss the chance to own a piece of literary history immerse yourself in a narrative that has enchanted readers for decades and continues to inspire with its enduring beauty and wisdom.

Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset presents an acclaimed biography of St. Catherine of Siena, a seminal 14th century woman of the Catholic Church. Undset's biography of this remarkable saint is a compelling and inspirational read.

Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset presents an acclaimed biography of St. Catherine of Siena, a seminal 14th century woman of the Catholic Church. Undset's biography of this remarkable saint is a compelling and inspirational read.

The third volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century In the early fourteenth century, Norway is a kingdom in political turmoil, struggling with opposing forces within its own borders and drawn into strife with neighboring Sweden and Denmark. Bloody family vendettas and conflicting loyalties sparked by the irrepressible passion of a boy and his foster sister (also his betrothed) have now set in motion a series of terrible consequences—with a legacy of betrayal, murder, and disgrace that will echo down through the generations. Crossroads, the third of Olav Audunssøn’s four volumes, finds Olav heartbroken by loss and further estranged from his son. To escape his grief, Olav leaves his home estate of Hestviken and agrees to serve as captain on a small merchant ship headed to London. There, separated from everything familiar to him, Olav begins a visionary journey that will send him far into the forest and deep into his soul. Questioning past decisions and future plans, Olav must grapple with his own perceptions of love and guilt, sin and penitence, vengeance and forgiveness. Set in a time and place where royalty and religion vie for power, and bloodlines and loyalties are law, Crossroads summons a powerful picture of Northern life in medieval times, as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding Sigrid Undset the Nobel Prize in 1928. Conveying both the intimate drama and epic sweep of Olav’s story as grief and guilt drive him to ever more desperate action, Crossroads is a moving and masterly re-creation of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution. As with Kristin Lavransdatter, her earlier medieval epic, Undset immersed herself in the legal, religious, and historical documents of the time while writing Olav Audunssøn to create astoundingly authentic and compelling portraits of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter, Tiina Nunnally does full justice to Undset’s natural, fluid prose, in a style that delicately and lyrically conveys the natural world, the complex culture, and the fraught emotional territory against which Olav’s story inexorably unfolds.

Sigrid Undsets novellsamling På livets skuggsida från 1912 skildrar orättvisa och fattigdom. Lagerarbetaren Simonsen förlorar sitt arbete, den begåvade sömmerskan har lägre ställning än de fina fruarna som bär hennes vackra kjolar, men de är särskilt noga med att betala för sig. I svensk översättning av Teresia Eurén. SIGRID UNDSET [1882–1949] var en norsk författare och nobelpristagare. Undset debuterade med Fru Marta Oulie [1907], men fick sitt genombrott med den omtalade romanen Jenny [1911]. Mest ihågkommen är hon för sina historiska romaner.

I Sigrid Undsets romaner Gymnadenia och Den brinnande busken får vi följa Paul Selmer och hans väg till katolicismen genom livets många faser; från föräldrarnas skilsmässa och faderns nya äktenskap till utvecklingen från student till vuxen man och det egna äktenskapet. Den brinnande busken kom ut 1930 och är del två av de två böckerna om Paul Selmer. I svensk översättning av Teresia Eurén. SIGRID UNDSET [1882–1949] var en norsk författare och nobelpristagare. Undset debuterade med Fru Marta Oulie [1907], men fick sitt genombrott med den omtalade romanen Jenny [1911]. Mest ihågkommen är hon för sina historiska romaner.

Olav Audunsson och hans barn är den andra och sista boken om Olav som fortsätter kampen för att försöka förstå livet och de starka krafterna som driver människan. Handlingen tar plats på och kring Oslofjorden när 1200-talet övergår till 1300-tal. Denna historiska roman av Sigrid Undset kom ut första gången 1927. I svensk översättning av Teresia Eurén. SIGRID UNDSET [1882–1949] var en norsk författare och nobelpristagare. Undset debuterade med Fru Marta Oulie [1907], men fick sitt genombrott med den omtalade romanen Jenny [1911]. Mest ihågkommen är hon för sina historiska romaner.

Novellsamlingen Den lyckliga åldern (1908) skildrar moderna kvinnor som längtar efter att bryta sig ut ur den grå vardagen i dåtidens Oslo. Sigrid Undset (1882 1949) debuterade 1907 med dagboksromanen Fru Marta Oulie, men är mest känd för sina historiska romaner, allra främst Kristin Lavransdotter. Hon tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1928.

Berättelsen om Viga-Ljot och Vigdis (1909), Sigrid Undsets första historiska roman, utspelar sig då 900-tal övergår i 1000-tal och kretsar kring den tragiska historien om hövdingadottern Vigdis och islänningen Viga-Ljot. Sigrid Undset (1882 1949) debuterade 1907 med dagboksromanen Fru Marta Oulie, men är mest känd för sina historiska romaner, allra främst Kristin Lavransdotter. Hon tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur 1928.

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicles the courtship of a headstrong and passionate young woman and a dangerously charming and impetuous man. Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political undercurrents of the period. Her prose combines the sounds and style of Nordic ballads, European courtly poetry, and religious literature. But the story Undset tells is a modern one; it mirrors post-World War I political and religious anxieties, and introduces a heroine who has long captivated contemporary readers. Defying her parents and stubbornly pursuing her own happiness, Kristin emerges as a woman who not only loves with power and passion but intrepidly confronts her sexuality.

"Det året Kristin fyllde femton år på våren stämde Lavrans Björgulfsson och riddar Andres Gudmundsson av Dyfrin möte på Holledis ting. De avtalade då att Andres andre son, Simon, skulle fästa Kristin Lavransdotter och få Formo, som var herr Andres arvegård på mödernet." Kristin Lavransdotter är Sigrid Undsets stora historiska romantrilogi som utspelas i Gudbrandsdalen på 1300-talet. I den första delen, Kransen (1920), följer vi den unga Kristin som blir lovad till faderns vän Simon Darre. Men under sin tid som ungsyster i klosterskolan råkar hon en dag illa ut och räddas i sista stund av den stilige riddaren Erlend. Kristin blir förälskad, trots att den högättade unge mannens rykte är tvivelaktigt och att deras förhållande riskerar att få våldsamma konsekvenser för deras respektive familjer. Med Kristin Lavransdotter fick Sigrid Undset sitt stora internationella genombrott och erhöll kort därefter Nobelpriset med motiveringen "förnämligast för hennes mäktiga skildringar ur Nordens medeltida liv". Nu presenteras hela trilogin i en efterlängtad nyöversättning av Gun-Britt Sundström, som även skrivit förordet. "Kristin Lavransdotter är ju känd som en av världens största kärleksromaner, men den är större än så. Visst är den erotiska passionen ett bärande tema, men märkvärdigare ändå är skildringen av kärlek till barnen (konkret, sensuellt beskriven så underligt sällsynt i litteraturen) och hur den samspelar och konkurrerar med kärleken mellan föräldrarna. Det mästerliga är den stora väven av olika slags relationer." Ur Gun-Britt Sundströms förord.

Inspired by tales of the hero Vilmund Vidutan and his fellow knights, Sigurd Jonsson and his young friends Ivar and Helge set out to reenact these exploits on their medieval Norwegian farm. But when the summer is nearly over, the three boys stumble into real trouble and must prove their courage in an adventure all their own.

Sigrid Undset is among the great modern writers of the twentieth century and was an adult convert to Catholicism. This forgotten treasure from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter is a fascinating collection of saints’ lives, a prophetic critique of modernity, and a surprisingly contemporary take on being Catholic—in particular a Catholic woman—in a sometimes-hostile secular world. Stages on the Road is a series of essays about the relationship between the Church and the modern world. In the spirit of G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, Undset points to inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and blind spots of the modern secular mindset by introducing readers to the stories of somewhat-forgotten Catholic figures like St. Angela Merici and the English martyrs Margaret Clitherow and Robert Southwell—people who stood fast to their faith in the face of both intellectual and political hostility. Undset tackles such topics as religious freedom, Christian/Muslim relations, and the vocation of women.

In an effort to redeem her reputation, Ida Elisabeth imprudently marries her teenage sweetheart, Frithjof. Early in their marriage, she realizes that her charming husband is too irresponsible to support the family and sews dresses to make ends meet. When Frithjof becomes involved with another woman, Ida Elisabeth divorces him. The single mother moves with her children to a small town. Still young and good looking, the admirably hardworking Ida Elisabeth attracts the attention of a successful lawyer, who possesses the manly virtues that her husband lacked. As she contemplates marrying again, Frithjof, now gravely sick, reenters her life. Unlike Undsets famous historical novels, which are set in medieval Norway, the story of Ida Elisabeth unfolds in the 1920s. As in Undsets other fiction, however, Ida Elisabeth poignantly illustrates how poor choices affect the course of a persons life and how the suffering endured because of grievous mistakes can become the means by which a love is purified. Even in her historical novels, the Nobel Prize-winning Undset tackled contemporary themes. With its setting in modern times, Ida Elisabeth examines the difficulties inherent in male-female relationships as they are experienced in contemporary society. Undsets descriptions of the Norwegian people and countryside coupled with her profound understanding of the human heart won her worldwide literary acclaim. Both are powerfully displayed in this compelling drama about fidelity and forgiveness.

The collection includes the great novel Jenny, two short stories and selected letters.

The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter A Penguin Classic More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar’s Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country’s history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor—until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness. First published in 1909, Gunnar's Daughter was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, Gunnar's Daughter is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time—and in ours—as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.

“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life—her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith—profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of "historical novels." This new translation by Tina Nunnally—the first English version since Charles Archer's translation in the 1920s—captures Undset's strengths as a stylist. Nunnally, an award-winning translator, retains the natural dialog and lyrical flow of the original Norwegian, with its echoes of Old Norse legends, while deftly avoiding the stilted language and false archaisms of Archer's translation. In addition, she restores key passages left out of that edition. Undset's ability to present a meticulously accurate historical portrait without sacrificing the poetry and narrative drive of masterful storytelling was particularly significant in her homeland. Granted independence in 1905 after five hundred years of foreign domination, Norway was eager to reclaim its national history and culture. Kristin Lavransdatter became a touchstone for Undset's contemporaries, and continues to be widely read by Norwegians today. In the more than 75 years since it was first published, it has also become a favorite throughout the world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Essayister) ISBN 82-504-2312-7 Sigrid Undset var intens engasjert i sin samtid og skrev en rekke artikler om litterære, historiske, sosiale, moralske og religiøse emner. Liv Bliksrud har redigert dette utvalget. Forhåndsomtale.

The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures.Volume 111, The Cross, shows Kristin still indomitable, reconstructing her world after the devastation of the Black Death and the loss of almost everything that she has loved.