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Title: Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh (Oxford World's Classics) by Heather O'Donoghue, Kevin Crossley-Holland ISBN: 0-19-283320-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 4
Summary: An epic Anglo-Saxon poem of ancient days
Comment: I was alerted to the existence of this epic poem through an animated version of it on TV one Sunday afternoon, not the usual cartoon-like presentation but a wondrous dark expression akin to Ridley Scott or the animation first used in the animated version of "The Lord of the Rings". This short feature was really quite superb and it gave me the impetus to buy a copy of it in book form. Similarly this translation by Crossley-Howard is wonderful in all its epic proportions, the Grendel, its mother and the struggle to defeat it. It is of course a heroic tale and the hero Beowulf is certainly in the classic mold after all it was poetry such as this and related tales eg The Iliad, Norse Sagas to name just two which originated the idea of the hero in present form. It must be remembered that this is an Anglo-Saxon tale at or around the 6th Century AD and as such based in Denamrk or Sweden rather than England (named after them of course). Strictly speaking it does not represent an aspect of English history rather a representation of Scandinavian life of the time. It may as such bear some resemblance to Norse sagas which were to yet to come some 300 or 400 years later. As a window on Ango-Saxon ife it does reveal some aspects such as the character of men and women or rather how they were supposed to be, similarly it shows that human affairs haven't really changed that much since then and the commonly held belief that ancient times were primitive in compasrison to today are mistaken. All aspects of human personality are present, such as greed, corruption, anger, heroism, kindness and so on. A wonderful read given a short time available.
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book.
Comment: I love this book. I read this book in English 4 for my senior year when we were discussing the Anglo-Saxon period.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beowulf, a bood I had to read...
Comment: Being in English class I had to read this book over the summer. So I did. I thought it would stink like Grapes of Wrath (sorry, didn't like that book.), but it didn't. So read this book, it's like reading a Rambo story.
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Title: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0521645840 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Introduction To Saint Thomas Aquinas by Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis ISBN: 0075536536 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 February, 1965 List Price(USD): $7.75 |
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Title: Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Dorothy L. Sayers ISBN: 0140440755 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1957 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Ecclesiastical History of the English People With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthberts Letter on the Death of Bede (Penguin Classics) by Bede, D.H. Farmer, Leo Sherley-Price ISBN: 014044565X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Rule of Saint Benedict in English by Timothy Fry, Liturgical Press, Timothy Horner, Imogene Baker ISBN: 0814612725 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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