9780141000039-0141000031-The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

ISBN-13: 9780141000039
ISBN-10: 0141000031
Edition: 59821st
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 848 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780141000039
ISBN-10: 0141000031
Edition: 59821st
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback 848 pages

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The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (ISBN-13: 9780141000039 and ISBN-10: 0141000031), was published by Penguin Classics in 2001. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.39.

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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 tales in this volume include the celebrated "Vinland Sagas," which recount Leif Eiriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World and contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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