Product Description: In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Anthony Barnett. P„r Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was one of Sweden's greatest, most prolific, twentieth-century novelists and short story writers. EVENING LAND is the first complete translation of Lagerkvist's ninth and final volume of poetry, the deceptively simple Aftonland (1953)...read more

The condemned thief in whose place Jesus was crucified is tormented by guilt and struggles to understand the meaning of the dead rabbi's teachings

Product Description: These five works translated by Roy Arthur Lagerkvist (1891-1974), introduced a new spirit of modernism into Swedish poetry, prose, and drama. In this work Swanson translates many of Lagerkvist's short stories, a play, prose sketches, and essays...read more