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Harpercollins Publishers, 2014. Hardcover. New. slipcased edition edition. 448 pages. 12.09x6.65x2.05 inches.
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- Title Beowulf
- Author Tolkien J R R
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Not Avail, London
- Date 2014
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780007590070 / 0007590075
- Dewey Decimal Code 829.3
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Beowulf: A Translation And Commentary, Together With Sellic Spell
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Beowulf, A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell, UK De Luxe Edition, 1st impression
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London: Harper Collins, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. J.R.R. Tolkien. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beowulf, A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell, UK De Luxe Edition, 1st impression. Published by Harper Collins in 2014. From the blurb, 'The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. 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; and 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 and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf…
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