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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $9.15 Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details) 
Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Paperback, Paperback, Unknown Binding, Paperback 94 third-party copies available from: $3.99  Other items of interest: • The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) • The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions) • Anglo-Saxon Poetry • Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) • Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) • A Guide to Old English • Beowulf • The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction • The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics)  Product Description: The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It includes the following:an introductiona guide to reading alouda chart of royal genealogiesnotes on the background of the poemcritical commentaryglosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the originalan extensive bibliography • Great product! Product Details/Specifications: Author: Howell D. Chickering Publisher: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor EAN: 9781400096220 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 1400096227 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 464 Publication date: 2006-02-14 Release date: 2006-02-14 Language: English (Published) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Brand: Brand: Anchor |
