The Saga of Grettir the Strong
If you like book The Saga of Grettir the Strong here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
Egil's Saga
Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egill Skallagrímsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautif…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Saga of the Volsungs
Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Njal's Saga
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terr…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?'
Buy this book on Amazon
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mytholo… -
Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Return of the Native
Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Salka Valka
A novel of Iceland -- a queer, repellant sort of Iceland at that. The story of a prostitute and her child, victim of her passions, her selfishness, and her ill-fame -- and of their attempt to find a p…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Independent People
This magnificent novel—which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature—is at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it reca…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Dr. Faustus
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title c…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities on…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Castle of Otranto
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to t…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Children of Húrin
This tale of Middle-earth's First Age, which appeared in incomplete forms in the posthumously published The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales , also edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher, only h…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
The Trumpet of the Swan
Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trumpet of the Swan, about a cygnet who finds his voice, is now a full-length animated film from Sony. Now…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Sagas of Icelanders
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 …
Buy this book on Amazon