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Beowulf
by Heaney, Seamus (trans.)
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Grioux, 2000. First American edition. Published in 2000 among considerable acclaim, and now a frequent feature in, or onus to, high school and undergraduate English courses. Bound in black cloth-backed boards covered in black paper flecked with silver. Fine in fine dust wrapper.
Together with the uncorrected proof disseminated by FSG. As fine as can be in white wrappers. Also with the first American edition in wrappers, published by W. W. Norton (NY) in 2001. Mild edgewear and some rubs to binding of wrappers, good. Also with an advance reading copy of the illustrated edition, which was issued by W. W. Norton (NY) in 2007. Bound in pictorial wrappers, good.
Together with the uncorrected proof disseminated by FSG. As fine as can be in white wrappers. Also with the first American edition in wrappers, published by W. W. Norton (NY) in 2001. Mild edgewear and some rubs to binding of wrappers, good. Also with an advance reading copy of the illustrated edition, which was issued by W. W. Norton (NY) in 2007. Bound in pictorial wrappers, good.
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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Details
- Seller
- Bromer Booksellers
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 32486
- Title
- Beowulf
- Author
- Heaney, Seamus (trans.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Grioux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Bromer Booksellers
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Boston, Massachusetts
About Bromer Booksellers
Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books. Owned and operated by Anne Bromer, who has been in the business of fine books for over fifty years, our shop carries a range of important private press books, designer bookbindings, illustrated books, children's books, and miniature books.
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