The Sagas of Icelanders

Jane Smiley,Robert Kellogg

ISBN 10: 0141000031 / ISBN 13: 9780141000039

Published by Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, New York, 2000

About this Item

8vo pp.lxvi 3 782."The Sagas of Icelanders collects a dozen of the most outstanding Sagas, including the celebrated "Vinland Sagas," which contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent. Much more than rousing adventure narratives, though, the Sagas introduce modern readers to a now-vanished world separated from ours by a thousand years--a richly imagined and?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sagas of Icelanders
• Publisher: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141000031
• ISBN 13: 9780141000039
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket
• Book Type: book
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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.

Note: This book is rough-cut, which means the pages will be unevenly cut to give the book and unique look and feel.

About the Author

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.