Jenny by Sigrid Undset

"Jenny" by Sigrid Undset is a novel published in 1911. The story follows Jenny, a painter who succeeds in her art but fails in love. She navigates complex relationships with fellow artist Gunnar Heggen, a young man named Helge Gram, and his father Gert. Set partly in Rome, the novel explores themes of artistic life, troubled romance, and emotional turmoil as Jenny struggles between friendship and love, ultimately facing tragic consequences that reshape all their lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Undset, Sigrid, 1882-1949
Translator Dohrenburg, Thyra, 1898-1972
Title Jenny
Original Publication Germany: Gyldendal,1921.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_(roman)
Credits Jens Sadowski, Reiner Ruf, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material, provided by the German National Library.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Adultery -- Fiction
Subject Young women -- Fiction
Subject Illegitimate children -- Fiction
Subject Artists -- Fiction
Subject Painters -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 68511
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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