A masterful historical epic by the Nobel Prize-winning Scandinavian author deals with the life of a Scandinavian woman in the fourteenth century, in an omnibus edition that brings together the various novels in the saga, which chronicles Kristin's life from her youth, through her tumultuous marriage[...]

This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And [...]