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| Genre/Form: | Epic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998. Independent people. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1946 (OCoLC)573173315 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Halldór Laxness; J A Thompson |
| OCLC Number: | 6554707 |
| Notes: | "First American edition." |
| Description: | vi, 470 p., 1 l. 22 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Sjálfstætt fólk. |
| Responsibility: | by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson. |
Abstract:
" ... are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or puchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres." [Dust jacket].
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