{"product_id":"9781631064234","title":"Beowulf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this elegant, portable Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes.\u003c\/b\u003e Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium CE, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is an Old English epic tale recounting the adventures of Beowulf, a \u003cb\u003eGeatish hero from present-day Sweden\u003c\/b\u003e. He is called on by Hrothgar, King of the Danes, to defeat \u003cb\u003eGrendel\u003c\/b\u003e, the powerful monster that threatens his great hall. As one of the earliest extant poems in a modern European language, it depicts a feudal world of blood, victory, and death—a \u003cb\u003eworld that exalts heroes \u003c\/b\u003ewho travel great distances to prove their strength, at impossible odds, against \u003cb\u003esupernatural demons and beasts\u003c\/b\u003e. Ringing with the beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for a thousand years, this venerable tale is now available as an elegantly designed\u003cb\u003e clothbound edition \u003c\/b\u003ewith an elastic closure and a new introduction from Tom Schneider.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Race Point Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042414477552,"sku":"9781631064234","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631064234_p0.jpg?v=1763671536","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631064234","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}