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Beowulf (signed limited)
by HEANEY, Seamus
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Quinton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed by Heaney, hand-numbered 28 of 325 copies specially bound in cream cloth with burgundy quarter spine lettered in gilt on black panel (25 copies were reserved for the author). Fine condition, green endpapers, facsimile of the opening page of the only surviving manuscript of Beowulf, fine pages, in green slipcase edged in burgundy. Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, and this is a beautiful example of the limited edition of Heaney's translation, winner of the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
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
- Bookseller
- Shellhouse Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PSHB7892
- Title
- Beowulf (signed limited)
- Author
- HEANEY, Seamus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, 1999
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry
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