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  • Icons of Danish Modernity

    Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen

    by Julie K. Allen ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country's deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.'-Joseph StalinWorshipped by the Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of modern history's greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. But he probably had more blood on his hands than any of them.Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, Stalin studied to be a priest while secretly reading the works of Karl ... Read more

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  • The Age of the Vikings

    by Anders Winroth ...
    A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. ... Read more

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  • 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 terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior ... Read more

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  • The Kalevala

    Translated by Keith Bosley ...
    by Elias lönnrot ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Danish History Books I-IX

    by Saxo Grammaticus ...
    Saxo Grammaticus, or "The Lettered", one of the notable historians of the Middle Ages, may fairly be called not only the earliest chronicler of Denmark, but her earliest writer. In the latter half of the twelfth century, when Iceland was in the flush of literary production, Denmark lingered behind. No literature in her vernacular, save a few Runic inscriptions, has survived. Monkish annals, ... Read more

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  • Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin & Leon Trotsky: The Soviet Union's Big Three

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Explains each man's role in the Revolution and its aftermath. *Discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding Stalin's death and how Stalin came to power against Lenin's wishes.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of ContentsAmong the leaders of the 20th century, arguably ... Read more

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  • The A to Z of Norway

    by Jan Sjåvik ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    One of the smallest countries in Europe, Norway has created for itself a position in the world community, which is completely out of proportion to the size of its population. Originally the home of sub-Arctic hunters and gatherers, then of ferocious Vikings, it lost perhaps half of its population to the Black Death in 1349, ended up in a union with Denmark that lasted until 1814, and then became ... Read more

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  • Four Major Plays, Volume II

    by Henrik Ibsen, Terry Otten ...
    Translated by Rolf Fjelde ...
    Series Book 2 - Four Plays by Ibsen
    Definitive versions of four classic works from the father of modern dramaThe foremost dramatist of his age, Henrik Ibsen changed theater forever with his realistic dialogue, his depiction of contemporary social problems, and his probing of characters' inner lives. The four plays collected here—Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady From the Sea, and John Gabriel Borkman—are charged with Ibsen's ... Read more

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  • Arabia Felix

    The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767

    by Thorkild Hansen ...
    Translated by James McFarlane, Kathleen McFarlane ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps.Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their ... Read more

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  • The Saga of Didrik of Bern

    with The Dwarf King Laurin

    by Ian Cumpstey ...
    The Saga of Didrik of Bern tells the epic story of the legendary King Didrik and his warriors. Early in the saga, we hear about how the young Didrik assembles a formidable group of warriors, and about their journey to challenge a powerful king. These warriors include Wideke, whose father, Weland the smith, forged his unbeatable sword Mymming, and Heym, who was raised on a stud farm with ... Read more

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  • Norwegian Newspapers in America

    Connecting Norway and the New Land

    by Odd S. Lovoll ...
    In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Already Skandinaven, published out of Chicago, kept newcomers and their Old World friends and family informed of political, religious, and social matters discussed in burgeoning Norwegian American communities ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD