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Siss visits the new girl, Unn, at her home for the first time. All episodes of The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas.
The Ice Palace (Nynorsk: Is-slottet) is a novel by the Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas, first published in 1963. An English translation was published by Peter Owen Publishers, London. It and was scheduled for reissue with them in Christmas of 2017 was part of their Cased Classics series.
- Tarjei Vesaas
- 1963
Sally Carrol Happer, a young woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, United States of America, is bored with her unchanging environment. Her local friends are dismayed to learn she is engaged to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified town in the northern United States of America.
Nov 23, 2013 · The Ice palace takes place in the raw scenery of the Norwegian late autumn. The evening roaring heralds the strengthening of the ice covering the nearby lake, and in the shadow, on the roadsides unnamed creatures are skulking. But you are not afraid of darkness, Siss, are you?
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‘The Ice Palace’ is a short story by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in May 1920. The story is about a southern belle who becomes engaged to a man from the North; however, she almost freezes to death in an ice palace at a winter carnival and this leads her to rethink the ...
When a new girl arrives at the school, Siss, still keeping to her promise, joins in with the schoolchildren on a ski trip to the now melting ice palace. Again Siss thinks she sees Unn but realises it is her imagination. The ice cracks but the palace only falls apart at night when everyone is asleep. Siss has kept her promise.
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The Ice Palace (Is-slottet) is a Norwegian novel written in 1963, by Tarjei Vesaas. The novel is one of the most known stories written in the "nynorsk" mode of Norwegian, and is considered a modern classic. The story tells of two girls, Siss and Unn.
