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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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One of the most lasting hero stories, this is the tale of Beowulf, the warrior who saved his people from a horrible monster. Told in thrilling verse, it stacks up next to classical stories like The Odyssey both in scope and in delivery.
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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 monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted afterma...
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