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  Beowulf

  by Anonymous

  Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language, reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. Its beauty, power, and artistry have kept it alive for more than thirteen centuries.
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  Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Seamus Heaney, Daniel Donoghue

  Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney's translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" ( New York Times Book Review ). The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" ( The Observer ) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed.... (more)
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  Heorot: Book 1

  The Legacy of Heorot

  by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

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  Batman vs Grendel

  by Matt Wagner

  Complete in one volume for the first time, the acclaimed stories that pit Gotham's dark detective against the embodiment of evil, written and drawn by Grendel creator Matt Wagner! Sleepless protector of his troubled but beloved city, Batman uncovers a new threat when Hunter Rose, the original Grendel, arrives in Gotham. It is a battle of might and minds as the Dark Knight faces off against this sophisticated and... (more)
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  Ice Hunt

  by James Rollins

  Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close—and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted... (more)
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  Heorot: Book 2

  Beowulf's Children

  by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

  (Published as The Dragons of Heorot (1995) in the United Kingdom) A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which drawf the ones their... (more)
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  Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript

  by Andy Orchard

  Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with... (more)
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  Grendel Tales: Devil in Our Midst

  by Steven T. Seagle

  A lone Grendel warrior bent on suicide is found on the Antarctic coast by a team of scientists, and within hours, everything goes insane: the team gets cut off from the rest of the world, and one by one, they begin . . . bleeding. Now the Grendel who was so eager to kill himself must decide whether to help the others or end his own suffering. With only each other to rely on, and having no idea who will become... (more)
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  Grendel War Child

  by Matt Wagner

  The Grendel-Khan, Orion Assante, is dead, leaving his only son as heir, a political pawn for the Khan's widow. The passing of the Khan, the military ruler of the earth, left the world warrior society in fragments, the once-controlled planet shattered into rival clans and apocalyptic zombies. But the Khan left a paladin behind to protect his only son from political ping-pong, a half-man, half-machine weapon of... (more)
• Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Poems of Two Great Eras with Certain Contemporary Pieces

  

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  Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Poems of Two Great Eras with Certain Contemporary Pieces

  1935 RONALD PRESS BLUE CLOTH HARDCVR, W/ DJ
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  Devil's Legacy

  by Matt Wagner, Arnold Pander, Jacob Pander

  The mind of a vigilante murderer is complex, wrought with anger and blood; it echoes through time in ancestral screams for revenge. And the cycle of death that comes from such a spirit is often endless and tragic. Such is the story of Christine Spar, adopted granddaughter of the terribly notorious, yet rich and graceful Hunter Rose, a.k.a. the original Grendel. It's the near future, and Spar takes her son, Anson,... (more)
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  Beowulf

  A New Telling

  by Robert Nye

  One of the world's great adventure stories, this epic adventure was first told more than a thousand years ago. Vile and deadly, the monster Grendel rises from his dreggy pool in the night to seek out his victims and kill them in dreadful silence. Hrothgar, king of the Danes, sees no end to the bloodbath: too many of his brave warriors have been slaughtered. Yet there is one man who remains unafraid, one man... (more)