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1) Grendel
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story.
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
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