The Elder Edda [Audiobook] download free by Andy Orchard
- Listen audiobook: The Elder Edda
- Author: Andy Orchard
- Release date: 2013/3/13
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780141393728
- Rating: 9.3 of 10
- Votes: 697
- Review by: Rey Hundley
- Review rating: 8.55 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/3
- Duration: 5H27M51S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: ATRAC, WAV, TTA, MP3, WMA, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression CBC, TZO, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M45S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would be the giant-race, if they all lived: mankind would be nothing under, middle-earth. What did you do meantime, Grey-beard?'J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fiction.They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations.They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength.They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Myth & Legend Told As Fiction, Poetry Anthologies (various Poets), Poetry By Individual Poets, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
- Download servers: FreakShare, SandCage, Hightail, Uploaded, MEGA, FileServe, BitShare, EliteTorrent, Hotfile, Mediafire. Compressed in CBC, TZO, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.60 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x24mm
- Weight: 316g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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