{"product_id":"beowulf-book-stephen-mitchell-9780300236668","title":"Beowulf","description":"\u003cb\u003eA widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728799605009,"sku":"NGR9780300236668","price":23.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50505998139665,"sku":"GOR009743029","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52326984220945,"sku":"CIN0300236662G","price":5.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300236662.jpg?v=1786614283","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/beowulf-book-stephen-mitchell-9780300236668","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}