The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol. 2 (The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy)

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 11, The Mistress of Husaby , tells of Kristin's troubled and eventful married life on the great estate of Husaby, to which her husband has taken her. Set in fourteenth-century Scandinavia, it is a novel about one woman's life, a story inspired by the Catholic art of life