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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition

  • Authors: Howell D. Chickering - Chickering - Howell D. (Editor)
  • ISBN 10: 1400096227
  • ISBN 13: 9781400096220
  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Release: February 14, 2006
  • Format: Paperback (464 pages)
  • List Price: $15.95
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    List Price: $15.95

    Tags: Literature & Fiction, World Literature, British,

    Book Description:
    The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter Beowulf as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. It includes the following:an introductiona guide to reading alouda chart of royal genealogiesnotes on the background of the poemcritical commentaryglosses on the eight most famous passages, for the student who wishes to translate from the originalan extensive bibliography

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