The Battle of Maldon avec The Homecoming of Beorthnoth

  • en
  • Couverture rigide
  • 9780008465834
  • 27 avril 2023
  • 208 pages
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Résumé

Collector's slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, and is immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon. Written shortly after the battle, the poem survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable. J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon 'the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy'. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth's retainers come to retrieve their duke's body. Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the first time Tolkien's own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is the lecture, 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he offers a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been 'the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien's fiction', most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings. This slipcased edition includes a colour frontispiece reproducing a page of Tolkien's original manuscript of The Homecoming, and is printed on acid-free paper with a ribbon marker. It is quarterbound with a unique illustration by Bill Sanderson gold-foiled on grey boards and is housed in a custom-built slipcase. It also includes a digitally remastered recording of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth read by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien, which is available on CD for the first time.

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Contenu

Langue
en
Binding
Couverture rigide
Date de sortie initiale
27 avril 2023
Nombre de pages
208
Illustrations
Non

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Auteur principal
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Deuxième auteur
Peter Grybauskas
Rédacteur en chef
Peter Grybauskas
Editeur principal
HarperCollins

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Hauteur de l'emballage
40 mm
Hauteur du produit
16 mm
Largeur d'emballage
164 mm
Largeur du produit
149 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d'emballage
274 mm
Longueur du produit
228 mm
Poids de l'emballage
1496 g
Édition
Édition deluxe

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9780008465834
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