George Mackay Brown

Broschiertes Buch

Magnus

Beschreibung

First published in 1973, Magnus is George Mackay Brownâ s tour de force â his most poetic and innovative book. He links the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkneyâ s brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson, to that of the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

Autor

George Mackay Brown as born in Stromness, Orkney (the 'Hamnavoe' of his stories and poems), in 1921. He was at Newbattle Abbey College while Edwin Muir was Warden. He read English at Edinburgh University and afterwards did postgraduate work on Gerard Manley Hopkins. He became a Catholic in 1961. He died in Orkney in 1996.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birlinn General
• Reissue
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9781846975066
• ISBN-10: 1846975069
• Artikelnr.: 57004980