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Transforming Space Over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with
Transforming Space over Time tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off Broadway. Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt begins with the moment he was...
Beowulf
'The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual...
Beowulf
A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and...
Beowulf: The Oldest English Epic
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew works have endured the passage of centuries with the commanding force of Beowulf, the oldest surviving epic poem in the Old...
Beowulf: Popular Penguins
Beowulf tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to...
Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero
The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English....
Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero
The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English....
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
This book introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600-1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays. The Companion is aimed at students encountering Old...
Myths and Legends (Boxed Set): Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The
Fifth in a series of hardcover boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. This slipcase contains Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , The Legend...
Pleasing Myself: From "Beowulf" to Philip Roth
Frank Kermode has a strong claim to be Britain's most distinguished literary critic. Over the course of a long career, he has written on a enormous variety of English literature,...
Medieval Epics
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: VG. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Good; light foxing on book block. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact. A landmark anthology of world literature, Medieval...
Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey...
Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most
Ben Thompson-author of Badass , creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.com, and the Internet's foremost expert on badassitude-is back to enthrall lovers of skull-smashing, bone-crushing bad behavior with his latest...
Water and Fire: The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England
Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the...