The wanderer: elegies, epics, riddles
by Wanderer; Alexander, Michael.
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BookPublisher: Penguin Classics 2013ISBN: 9780141393742; 0141393742; 9780141393759; 0141393750.Classification number: 829.1008 WANSubject(s): English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Translations into English| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Reserve Collection | Adult Non-Fiction | 829.1008 WAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002843479X |
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| 828.914 MIL The compulsive Spike Milligan | 828.914 NGU Dreams in a time of war: | 828.914 PIN Various voices: | 829.1008 WAN The wanderer: | 839.7267 STR Strindberg: | 839.738 LAR The man who left too soon: | 843.912 PRO Marcel Proust |
Translated from the Old English
Contents: The Battle of Maldon -- The wanderer -- The seafarer -- The Exeter riddles
'The Wanderer' tells the classic tales that influenced J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'. It brings together five of the key works behind his fiction. They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved.
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