Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Halldor Laxness, John Freeman (Introduction by)Series:Everyman's Library ClassicsPublish date:2020-10-06Pages:552
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9781101908273ISBN-10:1101908270UPC:9781101908273Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Sagas, Family LifeSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCM2DGX1Q6
A beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.
Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary...Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9781101908273ISBN-10:1101908270UPC:9781101908273Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Sagas, Family LifeSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCM2DGX1Q6
Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than sixty books, including novels short stories, essays, poems, plays and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998....
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