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The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Jane Smiley
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Description for The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Paperback. A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 145 x 50. Weight in Grams: 896.
In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as ... Read more
In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141000039
SKU
V9780141000039
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About Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley's ten works of fiction include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Moo, A Thousand Acres (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and most recently the bestselling Horse Heaven.
Reviews for The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
One of the great marvels of World Literature.... This is a dream come true.
Ted Hughes A testimony to the human spirit's ability not only to endure what fate may send it but to be renewed by the experience.
Seamus Heaney The glory of the Sagas is indisputable.
Milan Kundera ... Read more
Ted Hughes A testimony to the human spirit's ability not only to endure what fate may send it but to be renewed by the experience.
Seamus Heaney The glory of the Sagas is indisputable.
Milan Kundera ... Read more