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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
de Heaney, Seamus [Translator]
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393320979
- ISBN 13
- 9780393320978
- Librería
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback in black covers with French Flaps [Gatefold], decorated in silver and gold. i - xxxi, 213 pages. Introduction by translator and a brief "Note on the Names" by Alfred David. Bilingual edition with the original Anglo-Saxon printed on versos and the corresponding English translation on facing rectos. First Norton paperback edition, first printing with full number line. Previous owner's name inside front cover and again on top of first leaf. Winner of the Whitebread Prize. A highly regarded new verse translation of this epic Old English poem, written in England but set in Scandinavia. A like new copy, but for owner's name, clean, square, and unmarked. Near fine. .
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 019794
- Título
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
- Autor
- Heaney, Seamus [Translator]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393320979
- ISBN 13
- 9780393320978
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Poetry, Old English Epic Poetry
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Poetry;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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