Monday, May 11, 2009

Beowulf

This will be our first classic read during our summer session. The following links will provide access to online texts or to paperback versions, should you wish to purchase a copy or find one through your libary.

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Available at Amazon.Com or other book stores:
Paperback edition, verse translation by Seamus Heaney (W.W. Norton & Co, 2001, 215 pg). Paperback edition, verse translation by R.M. Liuzza (Broadview Pr, 2000, 248 pg).
Paperback edition, verse translation by Ruth P.M. Lehmann (Univ of Texas Pr, 1988, 119 pg). Paperback edition, verse translation by Charles W. Kennedy (Oxford Univ Pr, 1978, 121 pg). Paperback edition, prose translation by David Wright (Penguin USA, 1957).
Paperback edition, prose translation by E. Talbot Donaldson (W.W. Norton & Co, 2001).
Thrift Paperback edition, translation by Robert Kay Gordon (Oxford Univ Pr, 1992, 57 pg).
Audio Cassette edition, unabridged? (record says "unabridged selections"), read by Flo Gibson (Audio Book Contactors, 1999, 2 cassettes).
Audio CD edition, unabridged, read by translator Seamus Heaney (HighBridge Co, 2000).