Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Anonymous, John D. Niles (Illustrator), Seamus Heaney (Translator)

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Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's 1999 verse translation of Beowulf won the prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the nearly unanimous acclaim of scholars, poets, reviewers, and general readers. This illustrated edition marries Heaney's version of the 8th-century epic with images selected by noted Beowulf scholar John D. Niles. These well-chosen pictures provide a striking accompaniment to this Old English classic in its refreshing new setting.

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Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to its immense emotional credibility, Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality for the reader.

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