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Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition
Beowulf An Illustrated Edition
Author: Seamus Heaney (Translator), John D. Niles (Illustrator)
More than one hundred glorious images, many of objects dating from the time of the story, enhance Seamus Heaney's masterful best-selling translation. — Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393330106
ISBN-10: 0393330109
Publication Date: 11/5/2007
Pages: 224
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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This is an excellent version of Heaney's wonderful and accessible translation of Beowulf. The illustrations and photographs give the story a strong historical context, and help even further to bring the words alive.


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