2018, ISBN: 9780670889907

Hardcover

Publisher: Historiska Media. Utg. 2018. 237 p. This book is brand new. Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: Stadskultur, demokrati och spekulation i Stockholms City.&nb… More...

Publisher: Historiska Media. Utg. 2018. 237 p. This book is brand new. Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: Stadskultur, demokrati och spekulation i Stockholms City. Exploateringstrycket i Stockholm ökar och debatten rasar. Det byggs, rivs och projekteras för fullt, inte minst i City.  I den rikt illustrerade boken Stockholm City samlas engagerande texter från arkitekter, historiker, arkitekturhistoriker, journalister, byggnadsantikvarier, sociologer och forskare i urbana studier.  Med avstamp i historien tecknar de en bild av City och stadskärnans utmaningar: att bevara ett unikt kulturarv, skapa social hållbarhet och samtidigt finansiera stadens funktioner. Samfundet S:t Erik är en ideell förening som bildades 1901. Dess uppgift är att väcka intresse för och sprida kunskap om Stockholms historia samt verka för att konstnärliga och historiska krav tillgodoses vid Stockholms omdaning och utveckling. I det arbetet bedriver man programverksamhet och opinionsbildning, delar ut anslag, stipendier och priser, ger ut en årsbok samt sätter upp kulturhusskyltar.  Medverkande skribenter: Ann-Charlotte Backlund, Göran Söderström, Johan Erséus, Ulrika Sax, Fredric Bedoire, Victor Edman, Anders Gullberg, Henrik Nerlund, Sebastian Ulvsgärd, Martin Rörby, Rebecka Tarschys, Monica Andersson, Per Olgarsson, Sherif Zakhour, Jonathan Metzger, Mats Franzén, Kristina Berglund, Susanne Ingo och Asifa Iqbal.Bokens redaktör Ann Pålsson är förläggare, projektledare och pr-konsult med mångårig bakgrund inom förlagsverksamhet och journalistik. Hon är redaktör för Samfundet S:t Eriks årsböcker: Gamla stan (2015), Invandrat utvandrat (2016), Parkstaden (2017) och Stockholm City (2018). We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 6, New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. lxvi, 782 pages. Contains list of Illustrations and Tables, an Introduction by Robert Kellogg, Further Reading, and a Note on the Texts. Contains 10 Sagas (translated into English), 6 Tales (translated into English), and a reference section which includes Illustrations and Diagrams of Ships, The Farm, and Social and Political Structure, a Glossary, and an Index of Characters. Also includes 15 black and white illustrations, as well as 11 black and white maps. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Sticker residue on back of DJ. This is part of the World of Sagas series, edited by Ornolfut Thorsson. Signed by Jane Smiley (who wrote the Preface) on the title page. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, the National Book Festival, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, and many others. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders to be greatly underappreciated and among the best works of contemporary American fiction. 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 deed of the Norse men and women who firs settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself. Though strong men dominate the saga stage, it is often clever and beautiful women who manipulate the course of events behind the scenes. 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. Icelanders' sagas, also called family sagas, the class of heroic prose narratives written during 1200-20 about the great families who lived in Iceland from 930 to 1030. Among the most important such works are the Njáls saga and the Gísla saga. The family sagas are a unique contribution to Western literature and a central pillar of Icelandic literature. They are notable for their realism, their controlled objective style, their powers of character delineation, and their overwhelming tragic dignity, and they represent the highest development of the classical age of Icelandic saga writing. Some scholars have argued that the artistic unity, length, and complexity of the sagas prove that they are works written about Icelandic history by individual authors of the 13th century. Others have argued that the sagas were composed orally at about the time of the events they describe and then passed down as oral tradition until, centuries later, they were transcribed. The historicity of the sagas has also been the subject of a long-running debate, often tied to questions about who created the sagas and for what purpose. Regardless of whether the family sagas are true to history, they are true to the grim ethos of a vanished way of life, which they portray with dramatic power and laconic eloquence. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. The Icelandic sagas are believed to have been written in the 13th and 14th centuries CE, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling. While their facticity and authorship is for the most part unknown, they are a widely recognized gem of world literature thanks to their sparse, succinct prose style and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on history, especially genealogical and family history, and reflect the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was in this time a remote, decentralized society with a rich legal tradition but no organized executive power. Included in this work are: Egil's Saga, The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal, The Saga of the People of Laxardal, Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi, The Saga of the Confederates, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Ttongue, The Saga of Ref the Sly, The Vinland Sagas, The Saga of the Greenlanders, Eric the Red's Saga, The tale of Thorstein Staff-struck, The Tale of Halldor Snorrawon II, The Tale of Sarcastic Halli, The Tale of Thorstein Shiver, The Tale of Audun for the West Fjords, and The Tale of the Story-wise Icelander., Viking, 2000, 3<

2009, ISBN: 9780670889907

Paperback, Hardcover

1971. First edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1971. 11 cm x 18 cm. 137, (6) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library o… More...

1971. First edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1971. 11 cm x 18 cm. 137, (6) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. [Penguin Classics]. Contains among others the following chapters: Introduction; Note on the Translation; Hrafnkel's Saga; Thorstein the Staff Struck; Ale-Hood; Hreidar the Fool; Halldor Snorrason; Audun's Story; Ivar's Story etc., 1971, 0, New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. lxvi, 782 pages. Contains list of Illustrations and Tables, an Introduction by Robert Kellogg, Further Reading, and a Note on the Texts. Contains 10 Sagas (translated into English), 6 Tales (translated into English), and a reference section which includes Illustrations and Diagrams of Ships, The Farm, and Social and Political Structure, a Glossary, and an Index of Characters. Also includes 15 black and white illustrations, as well as 11 black and white maps. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Sticker residue on back of DJ. This is part of the World of Sagas series, edited by Ornolfut Thorsson. Signed by Jane Smiley (who wrote the Preface) on the title page. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, the National Book Festival, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, and many others. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders to be greatly underappreciated and among the best works of contemporary American fiction. 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 deed of the Norse men and women who firs settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself. Though strong men dominate the saga stage, it is often clever and beautiful women who manipulate the course of events behind the scenes. 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. Icelanders' sagas, also called family sagas, the class of heroic prose narratives written during 1200-20 about the great families who lived in Iceland from 930 to 1030. Among the most important such works are the Njáls saga and the Gísla saga. The family sagas are a unique contribution to Western literature and a central pillar of Icelandic literature. They are notable for their realism, their controlled objective style, their powers of character delineation, and their overwhelming tragic dignity, and they represent the highest development of the classical age of Icelandic saga writing. Some scholars have argued that the artistic unity, length, and complexity of the sagas prove that they are works written about Icelandic history by individual authors of the 13th century. Others have argued that the sagas were composed orally at about the time of the events they describe and then passed down as oral tradition until, centuries later, they were transcribed. The historicity of the sagas has also been the subject of a long-running debate, often tied to questions about who created the sagas and for what purpose. Regardless of whether the family sagas are true to history, they are true to the grim ethos of a vanished way of life, which they portray with dramatic power and laconic eloquence. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. The Icelandic sagas are believed to have been written in the 13th and 14th centuries CE, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling. While their facticity and authorship is for the most part unknown, they are a widely recognized gem of world literature thanks to their sparse, succinct prose style and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on history, especially genealogical and family history, and reflect the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was in this time a remote, decentralized society with a rich legal tradition but no organized executive power. Included in this work are: Egil's Saga, The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal, The Saga of the People of Laxardal, Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi, The Saga of the Confederates, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Ttongue, The Saga of Ref the Sly, The Vinland Sagas, The Saga of the Greenlanders, Eric the Red's Saga, The tale of Thorstein Staff-struck, The Tale of Halldor Snorrawon II, The Tale of Sarcastic Halli, The Tale of Thorstein Shiver, The Tale of Audun for the West Fjords, and The Tale of the Story-wise Icelander., Viking, 2000, 3<

2000, ISBN: 0670889903

Hardcover, First edition

[EAN: 9780670889907], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Viking, New York, N.Y.], VIKINGS, SAGA, ICELANDERS, GREENLANDERS, ERIK THE RED, VATNSDAL, LAXARDAL, BOLLI BOLLASON, HRAFNKEL FERY… More...

[EAN: 9780670889907], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Viking, New York, N.Y.], VIKINGS, SAGA, ICELANDERS, GREENLANDERS, ERIK THE RED, VATNSDAL, LAXARDAL, BOLLI BOLLASON, HRAFNKEL FERY, GODI, GUNNLAUG, SERPENT-TONGUE, REF SLY, VINLAND SAGAS, THORSTEIN, HALLDOR, SNORRASON, SARCASTIC HALLI, AUDUN, SHIVER, WEST FJORDS, EGIL, Jacket, lxvi, 782 pages. Contains list of Illustrations and Tables, an Introduction by Robert Kellogg, Further Reading, and a Note on the Texts. Contains 10 Sagas (translated into English), 6 Tales (translated into English), and a reference section which includes Illustrations and Diagrams of Ships, The Farm, and Social and Political Structure, a Glossary, and an Index of Characters. Also includes 15 black and white illustrations, as well as 11 black and white maps. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Sticker residue on back of DJ. This is part of the World of Sagas series, edited by Ornolfut Thorsson. Signed by Jane Smiley (who wrote the Preface) on the title page. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, the National Book Festival, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, and many others. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders to be greatly underappreciated and among the best works of contemporary American fiction. 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 deed of the Norse men and women who firs settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself. Though strong men dominate the saga stage, it is often clever and beautiful women who manipulate the course of events behind the scenes. 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. Icelanders' sagas, also called family sagas, the class of heroic prose narratives written during 1200-20 about the great families who lived in Iceland from 930 to 1030. Among the most important such works are the Njáls saga and the Gísla saga. The family sagas are a unique contribution to Western literature and a central pillar of Icelandic literature. They are notable for their realism, their controlled objective style, their powers of character delineation, and their overwhelming tragic dignity, and they represent the highest development of the classical age of Icelandic saga writing. Some scholars have argued that the artistic unity, length, and complexity of the sagas prove that they are works written about Icelandic history by individual authors of the 13th century. Others have argued that the sagas were composed orally at about the time of the events they describe and then passed down as oral tradition until, centuries later, they were transcribed. The historicity of the sagas has also been the subject of a long-running debate, often tied to questions about who created the sagas and for what purpose. Regardless of whether the family sagas are true to history, they are true to the grim ethos of a vanished way of life, which they portray with dramatic power and laconic eloquence. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. The Icelandic sagas are believed to have been written in the 13th and 14th centuries CE, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling. While their facticity and authorship is for the most part unknown, they are a widely recognized gem of world literature thanks to their sparse, succinct prose style and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on history, especially genealogical and family history, and reflect the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was in this time a remote, decentralized society with a rich legal tradition but no organized executive power. Included in this work are: Egil's Saga, The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal, The Saga of the People of Laxardal, Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi, The Saga of the Confederates, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Ttongue, The Saga of Ref the Sly, The Vinland Sagas, The Saga of the Greenlanders, Eric the Red's Saga, The tale of Thorstein Staff-struck, The Tale of Halldor Snorrawon II, The Tale of Sarcastic Halli, The Tale of Thorstein Shiver, The Tale of Audun for the West Fjords, and The Tale of the Story-wise Icelander., Books<

2009, ISBN: 9780670889907

Hardcover

New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. lxvi, 782 pages. Contains list of Illustrations and Tables, an Introduction by Robert Kellogg, F… More...

New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. lxvi, 782 pages. Contains list of Illustrations and Tables, an Introduction by Robert Kellogg, Further Reading, and a Note on the Texts. Contains 10 Sagas (translated into English), 6 Tales (translated into English), and a reference section which includes Illustrations and Diagrams of Ships, The Farm, and Social and Political Structure, a Glossary, and an Index of Characters. Also includes 15 black and white illustrations, as well as 11 black and white maps. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Sticker residue on back of DJ. This is part of the World of Sagas series, edited by Ornolfut Thorsson. Signed by Jane Smiley (who wrote the Preface) on the title page. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, the National Book Festival, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, and many others. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders to be greatly underappreciated and among the best works of contemporary American fiction. 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 deed of the Norse men and women who firs settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself. Though strong men dominate the saga stage, it is often clever and beautiful women who manipulate the course of events behind the scenes. 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. Icelanders' sagas, also called family sagas, the class of heroic prose narratives written during 1200-20 about the great families who lived in Iceland from 930 to 1030. Among the most important such works are the Njáls saga and the Gísla saga. The family sagas are a unique contribution to Western literature and a central pillar of Icelandic literature. They are notable for their realism, their controlled objective style, their powers of character delineation, and their overwhelming tragic dignity, and they represent the highest development of the classical age of Icelandic saga writing. Some scholars have argued that the artistic unity, length, and complexity of the sagas prove that they are works written about Icelandic history by individual authors of the 13th century. Others have argued that the sagas were composed orally at about the time of the events they describe and then passed down as oral tradition until, centuries later, they were transcribed. The historicity of the sagas has also been the subject of a long-running debate, often tied to questions about who created the sagas and for what purpose. Regardless of whether the family sagas are true to history, they are true to the grim ethos of a vanished way of life, which they portray with dramatic power and laconic eloquence. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. The Icelandic sagas are believed to have been written in the 13th and 14th centuries CE, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling. While their facticity and authorship is for the most part unknown, they are a widely recognized gem of world literature thanks to their sparse, succinct prose style and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on history, especially genealogical and family history, and reflect the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was in this time a remote, decentralized society with a rich legal tradition but no organized executive power. Included in this work are: Egil's Saga, The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal, The Saga of the People of Laxardal, Bolli Bollason's Tale, The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi, The Saga of the Confederates, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Ttongue, The Saga of Ref the Sly, The Vinland Sagas, The Saga of the Greenlanders, Eric the Red's Saga, The tale of Thorstein Staff-struck, The Tale of Halldor Snorrawon II, The Tale of Sarcastic Halli, The Tale of Thorstein Shiver, The Tale of Audun for the West Fjords, and The Tale of the Story-wise Icelander., Viking, 2000, 3<