1999, ISBN: 67797f0035b4844d97bd4af8f12fb4a5

Gebundene Ausgabe

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 11.54], [PU: Faber and Faber, London], OLD ENGLISH TOLKIEN HEANEYWULF EPIC POEM, Jacket, An excellent first impression of Heaney's translation of the old En… Mehr…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 11.54], [PU: Faber and Faber, London], OLD ENGLISH TOLKIEN HEANEYWULF EPIC POEM, Jacket, An excellent first impression of Heaney's translation of the old English epic, winner of the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year. The first edition, first impression of Seamus Heaney's verse translation of the Old English epic poem, Beowulf. In the publisher's original first state dust wrapper, price unclipped.Heaney's translation was widely celebrated, winning the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The scholar James S. Shapiro's New York Times review noted that Heaney's Beowulf is 'as attuned to the poem's celebration of the heroic as he is to its melancholy undertow.With an introductory essay from Heaney, this is the first edition of an important translation of the tale of Beowulf's defeat of the monster Grendel, and Grendel's mother. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally fine. Dust wrapper in excellent condition, with a touch of sunning to back strip, and small area of rubbing to fore edge of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine<

2000, ISBN: 67797f0035b4844d97bd4af8f12fb4a5

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 29.89], [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York], SEAMUS HEANEY, BEOWULF, HERO EPICS, NORTHERN SCANDINAVIAN EPIC POETRY, OLD ENGLISH, ENGLISH DRAGONS, GRENDEL, … Mehr…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 29.89], [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York], SEAMUS HEANEY, BEOWULF, HERO EPICS, NORTHERN SCANDINAVIAN EPIC POETRY, OLD ENGLISH, ENGLISH DRAGONS, GRENDEL, Jacket, 8vo. Bilingual edition. Full black paper boards. xxxi, 213 pp. Dust jacket has some bumping and creasing to rear cover and spine foot, else in fine condition. 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 monsterous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.<

2000, ISBN: 67797f0035b4844d97bd4af8f12fb4a5

Gebundene Ausgabe

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 29.89], [PU: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York], SEAMUS HEANEY, BEOWULF, HERO EPICS, NORTHERN SCANDINAVIAN EPIC POETRY, OLD ENGLISH, ENGLISH DRAGONS, GRE… Mehr…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 29.89], [PU: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York], SEAMUS HEANEY, BEOWULF, HERO EPICS, NORTHERN SCANDINAVIAN EPIC POETRY, OLD ENGLISH, ENGLISH DRAGONS, GRENDEL, Jacket, 8vo. Bilingual edition. Quarter black cloth, silver-spotted black paper boards. xxxi, 213 pp. Fine condition. 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 monsterous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.<