Beowulf (Record no. 7862)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01298nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 99023209 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780374111199 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 55695630 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR1583 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 829.3 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Seamus Heaney |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Beowulf |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 213 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.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 the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Poetry |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 829.3 HEAN | 33275 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |