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The Blue Tower

By Orarinn Eldjarn

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The Blue Tower

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Combining adventure with Scandinavian political and literary history, Eldjrn's gripping saga of 17th-century Iceland consists mostly of the fictional memoirs of its real-life hero, Gudmundur Andrésson."" Publishers Weekly In 1649, Andrésson is sitting apparently forgotten in Copenhagen's notorious Blue Tower, where he has been imprisoned for writing a pamphlet attacking the Great Edict, the morality law set by the Danish colonial authorities in Iceland. Interspersed with descriptions of his suffering and despair in the cell, he narrates the story of an extraordinary life. A bright but poor farmer's son, he was sponsored by a kindly scholar, but prefers a life with connections and a rich wife. The birth of a child out of wedlock, counter to the Great Edict, and his scurrilous tract seal his fate. ""A lively chronicle of impish, often sardonic resistance to tyranny in all forms."" Kirkus Reviews
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
186
Release Date:
1999-06-01
Publication Date:
1999-06-01
Publisher:
Mare's Nest Publishing
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1899197451
Weight:
227 g
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