THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE

By: Anonymous

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Fourth Estate Limited: 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000012847

ISBN: 0007170866

Condition: Very Good+

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A series of diary entries charts the sinuous paths of marriage and sexual d esire in this artful book, a bestseller in the U.K. The author of the entri es, a nameless 30-something housewife, has disappeared, leaving behind what amounts to 138 "lessons," written in the second-person, for her fellow arc hetypal "good wives." At first, the gimmick is jarring, but as the protagon ist's personality emerges and flowers, readers will be seduced by this some times subtle, sometimes overwrought novel set in modern-day London. At firs t, marriage equals safety to the woman ("it's a r... View more info

HRAFNKEL'S SAGA AND OTHER ICELANDIC STORIES

By: Anonymous

Price: ¥400.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1971

Seller ID: RWARE0000046167

ISBN: 0140442383

Condition: Very Good

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A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tale s collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into t he 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 his powerful neighbour, and Thorstein the Staff-S tr... View more info

EYRBYGGJA SAGA

By: Anonymous

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1989

Seller ID: RWARE0000046168

ISBN: 0140445307

Condition: Very Good

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A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and hist ory 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 Icelan d, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. 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, Pengui... View more info

LAXDAELA SAGA

By: Anonymous

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1969

Seller ID: RWARE0000046169

ISBN: 0140442189

Condition: Very Good

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A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is an extraordinary tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, and one of the most compelling works of Icelandic literature. Covering 150 years in the lives of the inhabitants of the community of Laxriverdale, the saga focuses primarily upon the story of Gudrun Osvif's-daughter: a proud, beautiful, vain and desirable figure, who is forced into an unhappy marriage and destroys the only ... View more info