Jenny Winge, a Norwegian painter of twenty-eight, is living in Rome among artist friends when she accepts the devotion of the earnest young Helge Gram. Back in Kristiania the engagement falters, and her entanglement with his family leads her into choices she cannot square with her own ideals of an honest, independent life.
An early, frank novel of a modern woman by the future Nobel laureate of Kristin Lavransdatter. Download the free EPUB.