The Unknown Sigrid Undset

Shows all the signs of being the "junior" work it was. The mature Undset would almost certainly have removed pages of "dialog" whch philosophize in ways no living person ever would do.

Sigrid Undset was a giant among early twentieth century authors--especially women authors. Undset's two monumental works, the trilogy `Kristin Lavransdatter' and the tetralogy `Olav Audunssøn' (titled The Master of Hestviken in English), both set in Medieval Norway, for which she earned her Nobel Prize in literature, greatly overshadow her earlier and later works.

Summary: Some early realist works by a Nobel Prize-winning author that read as if they were written today. Pity the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature who haven't the good fortune to write in English.