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  • Egil's Saga

    Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from ... En savoir plus

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  • Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

    These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen ... En savoir plus

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  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... En savoir plus

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  • Sagas of Warrior-poets

    Kormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads of Viking age Iceland at a time when the old ethos of honour and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign ... En savoir plus

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  • Eyrbyggja Saga

    par Hermann Palsson ...
    Traduit par Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards ...
    An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Prose Edda

    Traduit par Jesse Byock ...
    The most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source of Norse mythologyWritten in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. In prose interspersed with powerful verse, the Edda shows the gods' ... En savoir plus

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  • The Vampyre

    par John Polidori ...
    Collections series Penguin Little Black Classics
    A triptych of vampire stories to make your blood run cold, in a Little Black Classics edition‘Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown; immediately the sun sets, night begins’Danger lurks in the dead of night. Written during the infamous gathering that also produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Polidori’s short story ‘The Vampyre’ travels across countries, twists and turns ... En savoir plus

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  • The Bells of Nagasaki

    A first-hand account of the catastrophic atomic bombing

    par Takashi Nagai ...
    Traduit par William Johnston ...
    **‘A book that everyone should read’ The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.**On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • When We Ruled

    'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes

    par Paula Akpan ...
    'POETIC AND FIERCE' - Olivette Otele, author of AFRICAN EUROPEANS**'****THIS SWEEPING HISTORY RESTORES WOMEN TO THE CENTRE OF AFRICAN POLITICAL POWER...**BOTH ACCESSIBLE AND RIGOROUS' The Observer'A RICH, SUMPTUOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TAPESTRY' - Candice Carty-Williams, author of QUEENIE'A SEARING, NOURISHING JOURNEY THROUGH A HISTORY THE WORLD NEEDS' - Bettany... ... En savoir plus

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  • The Roads To Rome

    A Journey into Europe's past

    **Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed historian of Europe'Epic and witty'** Observer'Erudite, entertaining' Helena Attlee'Charming' *Wall Street Journal**'***Delightful and authoritative' Judith Herrin'Compelling...enjoyable' Financial Times**'**All roads lead to Rome.' It's ... ... En savoir plus

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  • I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

    A Novel

    par Irene Solà ...
    Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are ... En savoir plus

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  • Patria

    A spellbinding history of South America, as heard on hit podcast The Rest Is History

    par Laurence Blair ...
    An extraordinary adventure into South America’s epic history'Absolutely wonderful' DOMINIC SANDBROOK'A luscious, erudite romp ... a tour de force of literary mezcla' ALICE ALBINIA'A magnificent contribution to the Latin American canon' MARIE ARANAIn this sweeping exploration of the continent's forgotten past, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: van... ... En savoir plus

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