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**Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (*The Times*) of the world's first truly great work of literature** Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the *Epic of Gilgamesh* is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George’s gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluent narrative and will long rank as the definitive English Gilgamesh.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trus

Who reads Gilgamesh : A Verse Narrative?

Author

Mason, Herbert; Marks, John H.

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780451627186

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

3.64 / 5 (511 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13