Title:
Independent people : an epic / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson ; introduction by Brad Leithauser.
Author:
Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998.
Thompson, J. A. (J. Anderson)
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage International, 1997.
Call Number:
PT7511 .L3 S52313 1997
Abstract:
" ... Are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or purchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres." [Dust jacket].
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Edition:
1st Vintage International ed.
ISBN:
9780679767923
9780844669496
Series:
Vintage nternational
Vintage international.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 482 pages ; 21 cm.
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Uniform Title:
Sjálfstætt folk. English
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