The Sagas of the Icelanders. A Selection - Smiley, Jane (preface by)
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (World of the Sagas)
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A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest 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 Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.The ten Sagas and seven shorter ta...
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2000 Uitgever: Penguin Classics 782 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0141000031 ISBN-13: 9780141000039Koop dit boek tweedehands
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