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The music surged up the Via Condotti just as Helge Gram turned onto the street in the twilight.
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When Jenny was published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral -- "this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know." The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration but ultimately betrays her own ambitions and ideals. After falling into an affair with the married father of a would-be suitor, Jenny has a baby out-of- wedlock and decides to raise the child on her own. Undset's portrayal of a woman struggling toward independence and fulfillment is written with an unflinching, clear-eyed honesty that renders her story as compelling today as it was nearly a century ago.
This new translation by Tiina Nunnally captures the fresh, vivid style of Undset's writing and restores passages omitted from the only previous edition to appear in English, which was published in 1921. Most famous for her later, historical fiction set in Catholic, medieval Scandinavia, Undset stands revealed with Jenny, her first major novel, as an unsparing, compassionate, magnificent realist, the creator of works that are at once thoroughly modern and of enduring interest.
"[Undset] was an uncommonly fine writer of fiction."-- The New York Times Book Review
""Jenny is a stunningly atmospheric yet frank and searching drama about a young woman painter struggling to reconcile her need to make art with her longing for and fear of love. This brooding book can stand with the best of the moderns."-- Booklist
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- Title Jenny
- Author Sigrid Undset; Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 330
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Steerforth Press
- Date June 1, 1998
- ISBN 9781586420505 / 158642050X
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.53 x 5.53 x 0.84 in (21.67 x 14.05 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002005766
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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