Iceland's Bell
$28.00
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2003
Summary
One of the most beloved of Halldor Laxness’s novels among Icelanders, Iceland’s Bell encompasses themes of the dignity and pride of a tiny downtrodden country that clings to the memory of a once-glorious past. Seventeenth-century Iceland suffers under the oppression and contempt of its Danish overlords, as well as from plague and famine. The poor of Iceland suffer from local oppression as well, as archaic justice is served out annually at the convening of the Althing, the ancient Ice…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400034253 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1400034256 |
| Author: | Halldor Laxness, Philip Roughton |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“Laxness has genuine magic as a novelist.” –New York Herald Tribune“Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: He takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in an Evelyn Waugh-like humor; it is not possible to be unimpressed.” –Daily Telegraph
About The Author
Halldor Laxness
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 60 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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