Beowulf

Name: Beowulf
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Anonymous
ISBN: 9780061135972

Author: Anonymous

Narrator: J.B. Bessinger

Abridged: 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 09/25/2007

Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Classic, Short Stories

Synopsis

It's never been easy to be a hero. When Beowulf arrives at Hrothgar's hall, he discovers that the hall is beset by Grendel, an evil creature that kills and pillages with impunity. Beowulf, in heroic fashion, bests Grendel in combat, then follows Grendel back to his lair to finish the job.But Beowulf couldn't have counted on meeting Grendel's mother.And then, later, there's this dragon.But why are you reading about it? This story was meant to be told, to be repeated aloud. Listen as J.B. Bessinger, Jr. reads Beowulf and many other Old English poems, including Caedmon's Hymn. Listen to poems about love, war, faith, and heroism from centuries past.Contents include: Caedmon's Hymn, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, The Battle of Brunan Burg, A Wife's Lament, and selections from Beowulf: lines 1-125, lines 195-225, lines 702-852, and lines 3137-3180.

About Anonymous

anonymous — 1. not named or identified 2. of unknown authorship or origin

About J.B. Bessinger

J.B. Bessinger, Jr. of New York University reads these Old English poems aloud, including the most famous, Beowulf.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on November 26, 2024

I vaguely remembered reading this in 7th grade and thought it might be fun to grab the audio version of one of the most important works of Ye Olde English literature. I listened to this twice the other day and then realized a funny thing: Beowulf is basically every 80's action movie ever made. It's tr......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on April 16, 2021

As a college English major, I studied Beowulf without any great enthusiasm; my real love was for the Romantic poets. And Chaucer, but that might have been partly because I thought it was hilarious that we were studying such bawdy material at BYU. Plus you can still puzzle out The Canterbury Tales in......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on May 09, 2023

Those of you looking for a precise, age-old translation of Beowulf need to go back to Heaney. This is no timeless classic, this is no pretentious, literary snobbery made to bore high school sophomores. This is living, breathing poetry as it's meant to be, rooted in the language of then and the langu......more

Goodreads review by James on April 23, 2017

Beowulf is thought to have been written around the year 1000 AD, give or take a century. And the author is the extremely famous, very popular and world renowned writer... Unknown. Got you there, didn't I? LOL Probably not... if you're on Goodreads and studied American or English literature, you prob......more