![]() ![]() ![]() It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be. First UK edition of this novel in two volumes, 370 pages in total little light ocassional foxing throughout, a little heavier on. "This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. One of the finest minds in European literature." "No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." - Commonweal The second volume in the classic Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Mistress of Husaby continues the story of Kristins eventful life as she adjusts to. than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. ![]() "Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously. ![]() "As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." - Montreal Star Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Volume 11, The Mistress of Husaby, tells of Kristins troubled and eventful married life on the great estate of Husaby, to which her husband has taken her. "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." ![]()
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