{"product_id":"beowulf-9780300236668","title":"Beowulf","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stephen Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is \"someone who uses his special powers to fight evil,\" then \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep \"work of literature\" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation--spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry--makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45029922144407,"sku":"9780300236668","price":1586.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300236668.webp?v=1769204844","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/beowulf-9780300236668","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}