Beowulf Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
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A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpieceBeowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures—a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel’s monstrous mother, and a dragon—and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter.
If the definition of a superhero is “someone who uses his special powers to fight evil,” then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best.
It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy.
From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Stephen Mitchell’s marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original.
It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep “work of literature” but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years.
This new translation—spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry—makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 2 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2018
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- ISBN:9780300236668
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 2 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300236668