Beowulf
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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This is the story of a young man who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters-one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake. The young hero's name was Beowulf, and his story, first written in Anglo-Saxon in the eighth century, has become one of the world's most famous epics. Kevin Crossley-Holland retells the story for children in quick-paced, rhythmical prose accompanied by Charles show more Keeping's striking illustrations. Together they bring to life the beauty and power of one of the first great English poems. show lessTags
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themulhern Two retellings for children or YA of the Beowulf saga, both illustrated by Charles Keeping.
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I enjoyed neither the writing nor the illustrations. This is perplexing to me, because I have really enjoyed Crossley-Holland's Arthur series, as well as "Word-Hoard". I am puzzled but resolute to read more Beowulf.
A prose retelling of the story of Beowulf. Unlike some versions, this includes his life after killing Grendel. Alas, the illustrations were not to my taste.
good story. a must read for fans of the odessy and the illiad
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Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet, a prize-winning children's author, and a translator. Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf and The Exeter Book of Riddles from the Anglo-Saxon. He has collaborated with composers Nicola Lefanu (The Green Children and The Wildman), Rupert Bawden (The Sailor's Tale), Sir Arthur Bliss, William Mathias, show more and Stephen Paulus. Crossley-Holland's book The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. The trilogy has won critical acclaim and been translated into twenty-five languages. His recent and forthcoming books are The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, Bracelet of Bones and his new and selected poems The Mountains of Norfolk. Crossley-Holland often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council and offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale. Kevin Crossley-Holland is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives on the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia with his wife and children. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Beowulf; Grendel; Grendel's mother; Hrothgar
- Important places
- Heorot, Denmark
- Disambiguation notice
- This is an abridged translation of Beowulf (including ISBNs 0192723693, 9780192723697, and 0192721844), and should not be combined with unabridged editions, regardless of translator.
This (ISBN 0192723693) is Crossly-Holland's heavily abridged translation for youth, and should NOT be combined with the unabridged editions of Beowulf translated by Crossley-Holland (or any one else).
This is Crossley-Holland's heavily abridged translation of Beowulf. Do NOT combine this with any unabridged translation (by Crossley-Holland or any other translator).
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 829.3 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literature Beowulf
- LCC
- PZ8.1 .C8835 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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