Beowulf
by Heaney, Seamus (translated by)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 057120113X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571201136
- Seller
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
Faber & Faber; (1999). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Later (8th) printing of the First UK edition, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Owner signature on front pastedown, mostly hidden behind the jacket flap. The jacket has just slight rubbing generally. Publisher's price at bottom of front flap; a tight, square copy. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author (signature only) on the half title page. A new translation of this classic epic, winner of the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year (so stated in the upper left corner of the front panel of the jacket).
Synopsis
Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Heaney's celebrated translation honours what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255).
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- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023499
- Title
- Beowulf
- Author
- Heaney, Seamus (translated by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 057120113X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571201136
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber; (1999)
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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