The Sagas of the Icelanders - Couverture souple

Smiley, Jane

 
9780141000039: The Sagas of the Icelanders
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0141000031 ISBN 13 : 9780141000039
Editeur : Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

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 the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141000031
ISBN 13 
9780141000039
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
848
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