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"This book explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. Comparing Beowulf with its medieval German and Scandinavian analogues, this book argues that the poem's uniqueness reflects one poet's coherent plan for the moral renovation of an amoral heroic tradition"--
3) Grendel
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English
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This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic.
"An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the...
"An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the...
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"Despite its canonical prestige, Edmund Spenser's epic six-part poem The Faerie Queene (1590-96) has never been easy or altogether pleasurable to read. As this book describes, the poem's first known reader, Spenser's friend Gabriel Harvey, did so under duress, and returned the manuscript with a plea that Spenser write something else instead. Virginia Woolf's tongue-in-cheek advice to twentieth-century readers eager to cultivate a taste for The Faerie...
6) Beowulf
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English
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Beowulf SparkNotes Literature Guide
Making the reading experience fun!
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
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Kid Beowulf volume 1
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English
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Discover the extraordinary origin of twin brothers Beowulf and Grendel. The heroes' destiny is tied to the past, as a prince named Hrothgar begins a quest for power--one that leads him to a fiery dragon, an enchanted sword, and an oath sworn in blood. But when Hrothgar breaks his oath he breaks his kingdom, and the only thing that will save it is a family he's forgotten and heroes not yet born.
Presents the origin of the young brothers Beowulf and...
8) Beowulf
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English
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Includes information about the author of "Beowulf, " thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
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2014.
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.
But the commentary...
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