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Inside the gate : Sigrid Undset's life at Bjerkebæk / Nan Bentzen Skille ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Van Pelt Library PT8950.U5 S6513 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skille, Nan Bentzen, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Innenfor gjerdet. English
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian
- Subjects (All):
- Undset, Sigrid, 1882-1949.
- Undset, Sigrid.
- Bjerkebæk (Lillehammer, Norway).
- Authors, Norwegian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Norwegian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First University of Minnesota Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Inside the Gate offers readers a rare glimpse into Sigrid Undset's life at her home, Bjerkebæk now a museum and national landmark in Lillehammer, Norway. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, Nan Bentzen Skille's lively narrative presents an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize winner's intense emotional life and creative endeavors, with Bjerkebæk at the center of it all"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Lillehammer Station
- Disembark on the right
- Sigrid Undset makes herself a home
- With an office in "Norway's most beautiful home"
- The "guesthouse" that became the "priest's house"
- The garden
- "the third loveliest" in the world
- The children at Bjerkebæk
- Mathea Mortenstuen
- Miniature theaters and other sorts of drama
- The Nobel Prize comes to Lillehammer
- The difficult thirties
- "Fight for all that you hold dear"
- The curtain falls
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Chronology
- Photo credits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781517904968
- 151790496X
- 1452957207
- 9781452957203
- OCLC:
- 1019854672
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