title: The Mistress of Husaby
author: Undset, Sigrid
description: The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 11,
  The Mistress of Husaby
  , tells of Kristin's troubled and eventful married life on the great estate of Husaby, to which her husband has taken her.