& For a long while Beowulf leaned on the blood-stained sword; his heart was pounding A man with the strength of thirty! Slayer of Grendel & slayer of the sea-wolf! A hero without equal in this middle-world!& The story of Beowulf was written down as an epic poem in Anglo-Saxon England It recounts the heroic struggles of one man against supernatural monsters Kevin Crossley-Holland&s retelling unleashes the excitement in this tale of the triumph of good over evil while unforgettable illustrations from Charles Keeping capture every brooding moment & explosive episode This new edition features rescanned artwork to capture the breath-taking detail of Keeping&s illustrations & a striking new cover ...

Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English unparalleled in its epic grandeur & scope It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf & of his battles first with the monster Grendel who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar then with Grendel&s avenging mother & finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland Through its blend of myth & history Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men & supernatural forces live side by side & it celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in a transient world " Alexander&s translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious & faithful & communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning & reaches fidelity of implication May it go on to another half-million copies"
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This is the classic story written over a thousand years ago & retold for children ready to tackle longer & more complex stories Fearsome monsters stalk the moors of ancient Denmark murdering anyone they catch But then a warrior comes from overseas His name is Beowulf He kills monsters Each scene is atmospherically brought to life with Victor Tavares& illustrations Part of the Usborne Reading Programme is developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton ...

Set in a magical era veiled by the mists of time replete with heroes & monsters adventure & valor gold & glory one exceptional man emerges to save an ancient Danish kingdom from annihilation by an ungodly creature After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel Beowulf (Ray Winstone) incurs the undying wrath of the beast&s ruthlessly seductive mother (Angelina Jolie) who will use any means possible to ensure revenge The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages immortalizing the name of Beowulf Languages English Castilian Spanish French German Italian Subtitles English Brazilian Portuguese Castilian Spanish Complex Chinese Danish Dutch Finnish French German Italian Korean Latin Spanish Norwegian Portuguese Swedish Approx Run Time 115 Mins Special Features Directors cut
- featuring extended footage Reading Between The Lines The Making of Beowulf The Origins of Beowulf Beowulf&s Beast of Burden Art of Beowulf Deleted Scenes
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After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel Beowulf incurs the undying wrath of the beast&s ruthlessly seductive mother who will use any means possible to ensure revenge What follows in an epic battle that will resonate through the ages & immortalise the name of Beowulf ...

The epic Anglo-Saxon legend is brilliantly recreated by an award-winning authorillustrator team In fifth-century Denmark a murderous monster stalks the night & only the great prince of the Geats has the strength & courage to defeat him Beowulf&s terrifying quest to destroy Grendel the foul fiend a hideous sea-hag & a monstrous fire-dragon is the oldest surviving epic in British literature Artfully retold & magnificently illustrated this companion volume to Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is made instantly accessible to children by a formidable children&s book partnership ...

SANTIAGO GARCIA & DAVID RUBIN unite to bring forward the myth of Beowulf which has endured for a thousand years inspired an epic poem become a foundational piece of English literature & influenced generations of authors from JRR Tolkien & Seamus Heaney to a multitude of Hollywood screenwriters BEOWULF tells of the tale of a Scandinavian hero in lands that would become what is now Denmark & Sweden A monster Grendel has arrived in the kingdom of the Danes devouring its men & women for over a decade until Beowulf arrives to save them GARCIA & RUBIN faithfully follow the original story for a new version that is neither revisionist nor postmodern but captures the tone & important details of the poem translating its potent epic resonance & melancholy into a contemporary comic that isn&t standard swords & sorcery or heroic fantasy fare but rather an ancient story with a modern perspective that remains respectful of the source material ...

In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxon legend Beowulf the renowned children's historical fiction writer Rosemary Sutcliff recounts Beowulf's most terrifying quests against Grendel the man-wolf against the hideous sea-hag & most courageous of all
- his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-drake
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Composed towards the end of the first millennium the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics & a classic of European literature In his new translation Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true line by line to the original poem & an expression in its language & music of something fundamental to his own creative gift The poem is about encountering the monstrous defeating it & then having to live on physically & psychically exposed in that exhausted aftermath It is not hard to draw parallels between this story & the history of the twentieth century nor can Heaney&s Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing But it also transcends such considerations telling us psychological & spiritual truths that are permanent & liberating ...

The translation of Beowulf by JRR Tolkien was an early work very distinctive in its mode completed in 1926 he returned to it later to make hasty corrections but seems never to have considered its publication This edition is twofold for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; & from these lectures a substantial selection has been made to form also a commentary on the translation in this book From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy & clarity of his vision It is as if he entered into the imagined past standing beside Beowulf & 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 in this book

Includes:: also much from those lectures in which while always anchored in the text he expressed his wider perceptions He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf snuffling in baffled rage & injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is a mere treasure story' just another dragon tale' He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago & observes that it is the feeling for the treasure itself this sad history' that raises it to another level The whole thing is sombre tragic sinister curiously real The treasure is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time or marry the princess It is laden with history leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song but not beyond the reach of imagination' Sellic Spell a marvellous tale' is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form & style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf in which there was no association with the historical legends' of the Northern kingdoms

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