The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume I) Graham Greene Compiled by Evelyn Waugh and

Compiled by Evelyn Waugh and first published in 1958

” Yet the ordinary orientation of God towards all people

Like its pre­decessor volume

dinner preparations and party games

The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume I) Graham Greene Compiled by Evelyn Waugh andBy Sigrid Undset Translated by Arthur G. Chater The Master of Hestviken tetralogy, set in thirteenth century Norway, is the story of Olav Audunsson, a man whose life is a chronicle of conflict: between the brutal facts of the fading pagan order and the ascendant light of Christianity, between violence and peace, fidelity and betrayal, transgression and redemption. The Axe follows Olav from his childhood days with the family of Steinfinn Toresson.