 | Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.67 Includes Dinesen's classic story "Babette's Feast", which gives a wonderful picture of 19th century rural Norway.
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 | Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author (Penguin Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Buy used from: $4.78 The author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" writes a series of letters while she travels on a secret mission in Scandinavia. Norway was clearly her favorite among he countries she visited.
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 | Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Sigrid Undset
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.24 Undset won the Nobel Prize, in large part due to her masterful depiction of the medieval Kristin Lavransdatter.
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 | The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.94 Not Smiley's best work, but an interesting treatment of the Vikings nonetheless.
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 | The Vikings
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.86 A cheesy 50s classic, but of some interest to the Scandinavian-bound.
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 | In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream by Eric Dregni Dregni
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $14.98 A humorous account of a Fulbright scholar's year in Norway -- the writing could be better, but amusing nonetheless.
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $9.63 / Used from: $2.82 Not exactly about Norway, but Diamond does include an interesting chapter about the Viking Greenland settlers and why their society collapsed.
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 | The Best of Grieg
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.93 Norway's most famous composer
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