The Wild Orchid
The Wild Orchid, the first volume of Nobel Prize-winning Undset's novel The Winding Road, is the story of Paul Selmer, a typical child of the experientially emancipated, intellectually enlightened modern age. The son of upper middle class Protestant parents, who divorced when he was a teenager, Paul is raised along with his sister and two brothers by his mother to be a freethinker. Amidst the prosaic trappings of his work and play, the pursuit of a mistress and then a marriage, and with the threat of a world war looming over Norway, Paul yearns for a deeper, more abiding meaning and order for his hopes and loves. Similar to Undset's masterpie…
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- ISBN: 978-1-949899-93-1
- EAN: 9781949899931
- Produktnummer: 38496729
- Verlag: Cluny Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.4 cm 654 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 654
Über den Autor
Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was a Norwegian novelist and essayist and a convert to Catholicism. Her work is renowned for its realism and poignancy, and she is best known for her three-volume novel Kristin Lavransdatter. In 1928, Undset was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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