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  • Published: 24 June 1995
  • ISBN: 9780679755531
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $32.99

In the Wilderness

The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 3



It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he is a man of wealth and stature. But he is haunted by the memory of crimes for which there is no easy atonement and by losses that may never be redeemed.

  • Published: 24 June 1995
  • ISBN: 9780679755531
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset is a major figure in early twentieth-century literature. A Norwegian born in Denmark in 1881, she worked with the Norwegian underground during the Second World War, fled to Sweden in 1940, and later came to the United States. She is the author of many works of fiction as well as several books for young readers and a number of nonfiction titles. Her novels encompass a variety of settings and time periods, ranging from medieval romances such as the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy—generally considered to be her masterwork—and The Master of Hestviken tetralogy to modern novels such as The Winding RoadIda Elisabethand The Faithful Wife. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Sigrid Undset died in 1949.

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