William Heinesen

A Poetic Mosaic Novel about My Earliest Youth

The Tower at the Edge of the World

Eça de Queirós

Eca Dequerioz

The Black Cauldron

Laterna Magica

Music is at the heart of this book. The devotion to it of a group of amateur musicians forming the Boman Quartet prevents a series of dramatic events from turning into heart-rending tragedy. Music enables each of the musicians to rise above his own bleak situation. But there is humour, too, especially in the satirical, larger than life portrayal of the local sectarians, led by the bank manager Ankersen, as they seek in vain to break the spirit of the musicians. And humour of a more earthly kind in Janniksen, the huge blacksmith who is completely at the mercy of his petty-minded sectarian wife. The setting is a small Faroese town at the beginning of the 20th century - and that town is today the capital of the Faroe Islands, Torshavn.

The Lost Musicians

Collection of poems taken from previously published works of the Faroese writer William Heinesen.

Selected Poems, 1921-1972

Arctis

The Kingdom of the Earth

William Heinesens debutroman fra 1934 skildrer med frodigt lune den moderne tids indtog i et lille isoleret øsamfund, hvor middelalderlige tilstande stadig råder.

Blæsende gry

The Wingéd Darkness and Other Stories

W. Glyn Jones

William Heinesen brings to life a whole host of vivid, larger than life characters from the sectarian preacher, Reinhold Vaag, the drunken, philosophising solicitor Morberg, the well-meaning voyeur Vitus, to the firebrand shopkeeper Landrus and the bizarre teacher Balduin who is intent on reaching spiritual perfection."

Windswept Dawn

First published in 1964 The Good Hope won The Nordic Prize for Literature. It is the first English translation of one of the greatest novels in the Danish language. . The Good Hope is an epistolary novel based on the life of the Reverend Lucas Debes, a larger than life character called Peder Borresen in the novel. It tells a story of brutal oppression, poverty and terrible diseases, but also of resistance and of having the courage of one's convictions. It is a dramatic fantasy in which Heinesen's customary themes - the struggle against evil, sectarianism, superstition and oppression -emerge on a higher plane, set against the backcloth of the Faroe Islands in the 1690s. The Good Hope is a masterpiece which took 40 years to write."

William Heinesen

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