The Son Avenger: Volume IV of The Master of Hestviken
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.
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The Son Avenger: Volume IV of The Master of Hestviken
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780679755524 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 06/24/1995 |
Series: | Master of Hestviken Series , #4 |
Edition description: | 1st Vintage Books ed |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 5.26(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.65(d) |
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