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 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 Lear.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780307773098 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 12/08/2010 |
Series: | Master of Hestviken Series , #4 |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 288 |
Sales rank: | 548,246 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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