Foto de archivo: la portada puede ser diferente
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
de HEANEY, Seamus (translator)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0374111197
- ISBN 13
- 9780374111199
- Librería
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and black/silver decoated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxx, 213pp, (7pp). Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this highly-regarded translation, with circular silver foil "Winner / of the / Whitbread / Award" sticker at lower right of front jacket panel.
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).
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 45533
- Título
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
- Autor
- HEANEY, Seamus (translator)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374111197
- ISBN 13
- 9780374111199
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Books; Poetry; British Literature;
Términos de venta
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
Sobre el vendedor
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Galena, Illinois
Sobre Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
