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  The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, albeit I have only heard of her a few days ago, when I have started this, The Wreath is just the first part of the trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter , for which the novelist has been awarded the Nobel, you find it on the 298 th spot among The Greatest Books of All Time site, hence the effort to try and read it, and now the plug: hundreds of books from that list, also The Norwegian Book Club Top 100, Le Monde, Modern Library’s Best 100, are reviewed on my blog, where the best beano is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html     7 out of 10   This reader may have a soft spot – as in he does not get it – for the Scandinavian literature, perhaps Norwegian in particular, given that The Wreath has failed to enchant him, and it was the same for Hunger   -           By celebrated Knut Hamsun...

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  My Antonia by Willa Cather – a brilliant author, who has four books on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, along My Antonia, which is 193 rd on The Greatest Books of All Time site, you have One of Ours, The Professor’s House and A Lost Lady, reviewed on my blog, together with hundreds of other books and motion pictures, the plug for the best gig is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html     9 out of 10   A few months back, I have read A Lost Lady https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-lost-lady-by-willa-cather-author-of.html and I wonder why she did not get The Nobel Prize for Literature, while that was given to so may less significant writers (I was going to put in Bob Dylan, then thought maybe not, but finally, here he is)   Though the title of this entertaining book is My Antonia, I think the hero is the narrator – the one behind the My – Jim Burden, albeit the girl, and then later in...