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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $13.13 (As of Mar 8, 03:08 AM) Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details)  • This book is on 1 myArmoury member list
Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Unknown Binding, Paperback 92 third-party copies available from: $6.78 (As of Mar 8, 03:08 AM) 
Other items of interest: • The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) • Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) • The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Penguin Classics) • Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) • The Monsters and the Critics  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 introduction a guide to reading aloud a chart of royal genealogies notes on the background of the poem critical commentary glosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the original an extensive bibliography Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Howell D. Chickering Recording label: Anchor Publishers: 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 (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: Mar 8, 2014 03:08 AM (GMT -8 hours) |
