Independent people
Subtitle: an epic
By: by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson.
Contributors: Thompson, J. A.
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Iceland -- Fiction.
Description: "...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]
Notes: "First American edition."