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Rare and modern books

Heaney

BEOWULF A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

38.50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
2000
Place of printing
New York
Author
Heaney
Publishers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Description

First bilingual edition, sixth printing. Title-page printed in red and black, the poem printed with the Old English on the left and Heaney's new translation on the right, both within ruled lines. 8vo, in the original black cloth, lettered on the spine in silver, in the dustjacket decorated in a chainmail motifi. xxx, [1], 213, [4] pp. A very fine copy, the black paper jacket with just a hint of mellowing and crease, Whitbread Award Winner seal affixed.

Edizione: first bilingual edition, the award-winning modern irish poet gives us a new translation of one the great northern classic beowulf, a foundational piece of european literature. winner of the whitbread award for book of the year, 1999.