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Can I read Beowulf on EtoBox?
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney; Overdrive Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beowulf about?
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.
Who reads Beowulf?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Seamus Heaney; Overdrive Inc
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393069754
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Poetry, History
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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