Independent People.
"This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author’s Magnum Opus Independent People
Independent People.
LAXNESS, Halldor.
$600.00
Item Number: 140244
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin. Translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Independent People is the author's most acclaimed work and was originally published in Iceland as SJÁLFSTÆTT FÓLK in 1934. "There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life. . . . My favorite book by a novelist is Independent People" (Brad Leithauser).
