Gilgamesh [Audiobook] download free by Stephen Mitchell
- Listen audiobook: Gilgamesh
- Author: Stephen Mitchell
- Release date: 2012/2/22
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781861977984
- Rating: 7.66 of 10
- Votes: 369
- Review by: Margaret Tomlin
- Review rating: 7.52 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/26
- Duration: 3H51M14S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, Shorten, MP3 (compression ARC, RAR, CAB, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M2S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, made immortal by the Gods to ask him the secret of life and death. Gilgamesh is the first and remains one of the most important works of world literature. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C., it predates the Iliad by roughly 1,000 years. Gilgamesh is extraordinarily modern in its emotional power but also provides an insight into the values of an ancient culture and civilisation.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Poetry Anthologies (various Poets)
- Download servers: FreakShare, 4Shared, Google Drive, Zippyshare, Uploaded, Ivoox, BitShare. Compressed in ARC, RAR, CAB, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.67 USD
- Dimensions: 127x198x19mm
- Weight: 212g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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