Iceland'S Bell [Audiobook] download free by Halldór Laxness
- Listen audiobook: Iceland'S Bell
- Author: Halldór Laxness
- Release date: 2011/11/14
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781400034253
- Rating: 9.45 of 10
- Votes: 610
- Review by: Carolyn Mccaffrey
- Review rating: 7.42 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/23
- Duration: 5H12M43S in 256 kbps (85 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MP3, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, WAV, Apple Lossless, AIFF, FLAC (compression GZ, AZW3, ZIP, RAR, BZ2, DEB)
- Total pages original book: 425
- Includes a PDF summary of 46 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M4S (9.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king's hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as 'Iceland's Sun,' a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king's antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Iceland's Bell creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: 4Shared, Torrent, Microsoft OneDrive, Mediafire, MyUpload, Google Drive, Krakenfiles. Compressed in GZ, AZW3, ZIP, RAR, BZ2, DEB
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.76 USD
- Dimensions: 131x203x23mm
- Weight: 320g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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