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Beowulf: A New Prose Translation

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Beowulf is an amazing story, and Donaldson's translation is suberb. HOWEVER, the black cover that just says beowulf in script is NOT a norton critical edition, it is just the Beowulf text with an introduction, and none of the essays that go with the actual Norton Critical Edition, which actually costs less. The Real Norton Critical Edition based on Donaldson's text has a blue cover, and says it is the "prose edition." I made the mistake, so don't make it yourself. The Black covered version is only 55 pages long, so the Beowulf text is all there, but nothing else.

Many and many tales of myth and legend have survived the countless years since their conception. But, very few of them are as compelling as Beowulf. Any fan of mytholology theology and philosophy will have a field day with this tale, and any fans of such other classics as the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Gilgamesh, will deeply love, adore, and cherish this tale of trial and tribulation, and conquering the greater evil.

The book arrived in great condition and it only took a very few days to get it!

I was getting very tired of learning about every culture but my own in school. We were learning about Africa, South America, and Asia nearly all the time. I suggested to my teacher that we read Beowulf, and celebrate Anglo history. Being a reasonable man, he agreed. Well, let me tell you- it was one of the few times the public school system gave me my assignments that excited my "passions for learning" .................... Buy Beowulf and learn about a hero and his quest to save his people.