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Beowulf: A Glossed Text (Penguin Classics) Book

This is an edition of the Old English epic poem 'Beowulf', offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Through its blend of myth and history, Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men and supernatural forces live side by side, and celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in a transient world.

  • Blackwell

    Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic...

  • Penguin

    The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf marks the beginning of English literature. Eighth-century in origin, composed to be recited aloud, it told its Anglo-Saxon listeners a story of their Scandinavian ancestors.

  • 0140433775
  • 9780140433777
  • 25 May 2006
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New Ed
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