Ida Elisabeth by Sigrid Undset (Nobel Prize in 1928). Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933; Hard Cover. First American Edition. Translated from Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater. Borzoi endpapers. Ida Elisabeth is one of Undset's strong and capable characters, mated to a weakling who never reaches maturity in a spiritual sense. After she has won her freedom, and just as a new life of happiness is opening before her, the claim of the past reasserts itself and is not to be denied. It is perhaps Undset's greatest achievement to have proved so convincingly, by the living testimony of her creation, a thesis which many moderns, and not only the lighter-minded, imagine they have consigned to the lumber-room of the past. And she is very far from defending her thesis as a lost cause; she makes it appear the most natural thing in the world.
Outer boards and spine are faded. Top outer spine has minor rip. A small pasted paper on inside cover of book contents. Small stamp dated 8.18.34 indicating donation to state sanatorium. Book is otherwise tight and clean.
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