The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection (World of the sagas)
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ISBN 10: 0713993561 ISBN 13: 9780713993561
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THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS are amongst the crowning achievements of medieval literature. For sheer narrative artistry and skill of characterisation, 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. They form a unique literary genre and describe a richly imagined and complex world - inspiring writers as diverse as Walter Scott, Jorge Luis Borges and W H Auden. This outstanding selection of sagas and shorter tales is prefaced by a brilliant introductory essay by Robert Kellogg, explaining their literary and social context. THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS is drawn from the first English translation of the entire corpus.
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Jane Smiley is author of many novels, including A THOUSAND ACRES which won the Pulitzer Prize, and THE GREENLANDERS.
Dr Robert Kellogg divides his time between Reykjavik and Virginia (where he was Professor of Literature until his retirement) and is co-author of THE NATURE OF NARRATIVE.
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