Beowulf A New Verse Translation
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). Farrar, Straus & Giroux, First Edition, Stated seventh Printing, 2000. binding: black paper boards/black cloth spine/silver lettering. A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf 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 then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, First Edition, Stated seventh Printing, 2000. Near Fine / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, First Edition, Stated seventh Printing, 2000. Near Fine. Item #596
ISBN: 9780374111199
Price: $50.00