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Beowulf
Written by Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by Stephen Mitchell
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to 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.
Author
Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Mitchell's many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel.
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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5dreary, slow and sleep inducing , this narrator shouldn’t have been chosen to read this book