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1) Jabberwocky
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Illustrator Charles Santore brings Lewis Carroll's poem to vivid life through illustrations.
3) Beowulf
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2017
Language
English
Description
Written one thousand years ago, Beowulf is the oldest surviving work in Old English, and the first of its kind to make the transition from the oral tradition to written form. Filled with vivid battle scenes, it is named for a young warrior in fifth-century Scandinavia who achieves glory by fighting and killing various monsters and governing his land wisely for 50 years.
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife"--
Headley provides a radical new verse translation of the epic poem. She brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. The familiar elements of the...
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A striking and playful anthology of fiction and poetry that removes queer monsters from the subtext and places them front and centre The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.
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