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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Independent people</title>
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  <titleInfo type="uniform">
    <title>Sjl̀fstt̆t folk. English</title>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Halldr̤ Laxness</namePart>
    <namePart>1902-</namePart>
    <role>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thompson, J. A. (J. Anderson)</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>A. A. Knopf</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1946</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>vi, 470 p., 1 l. 22 cm</extent>
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  <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]</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">an epic by Halldr̤ Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson</note>
  <note>"First American edition."</note>
  <subject authority="">
    <topic>NOVELAS ALEMANAS</topic>
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  <subject authority="">
    <topic>Epic fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Iceland</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PZ3.L449 In2</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">839.6</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0679767924</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">96025026</identifier>
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