Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248)
10 best books like Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248) (J.R.R. Tolkien): The Burrowers Beneath, The Battle of Maldon, Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College), The Philosophy of Literary Form, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, A Guide to Old English, Anglo-Saxon England, The Evil Genius, Tolkien: Man and Myth: A Literary Life
| Author | Brian Lumley |
| ISBN | 9997539745 |
THE EARTH’S REAL LANDLORDS ARE SURFACING. HERE. NOW...
From the darkly fantastic worlds of H P Lovecraft’s world-famous Cthulhu Mythos comes a grimly compelling novel of the Ultimate War, between men – and monsters spawned in Hell!
For millennia, men have strutted in puny...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0951620908 |
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD
This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»
Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.
The battle in which Roland...
| Author | Douglas A. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0345458567 |
“A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.”
–Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal Champion
Many of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0669212121 |
Although Tolkien fans will no doubt disagree, Klaeber's Beowulf is undoubtably the most important work on the poem ever produced and after ninety years is still the most authoritative edition of the text.
First published in 1922, one of the most exciting periods in Beowulfian studies and...
| Author | Kenneth Burke |
| ISBN | 0520024834 |
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows." Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and...
| Author | S.A.J. Bradley |
| ISBN | 0460875078 |
Anglo–Saxon poetry is esteemed for its subtle artistry and for its wealth of insights into the artistic, social and spiritual preoccupations of the formative first centuries of English literature.
This anthology of prose translations covers most of the poetry surviving in the four major...
| Author | Bruce Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0631226362 |
For more than thirty years, A Guide to Old English has been the standard introduction to Old English language and literature. This updated sixth edition retains the structure and style of the popular previous editions, and includes two new, much-requested texts: Wulf and Eadwacer and Judith.The...
| Author | F.M. Stenton |
| ISBN | 0192801392 |
Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1426404751 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 0898708257 |
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings took first place in a nationwide British poll to find the greatest book of the century! He may be the most popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood. This major new study of his life, his character and his work reveals the facts and confronts the...
| Author | Verlyn Flieger |
| ISBN | 0873388240 |
The content of Tolkien's Mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored and deserve closer investigation. Nineteenth-and twentieth-century scholars understood the term...
Father Ian Pearse leads a scholar's life within the Vatican walls, intent on ferreting out the textual complexities of Saint Ambrose's letters. But when a fellow priest gives him an ancient prayer that seems to hint at unspeakable heresy, and then mysteriously disappears, Pearse is forced from contemplation...
| Author | Kathleen Flynn-Hui |
| ISBN | 0446500178 |
Why do I keep reading this crap? Mildly diverting trashy chicklit. The worst part about this book was the constant moving between time periods. The main character has Farrah Fawcett hair in high school and dreams of visiting Studio 54, which would put it at about 1977-1979. Then, less than five years...
| Author | Tom Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0879519282 |
Better than its reputation suggests but still not amazing, The Midden is probably Tom Sharpe's last genuinely good novel. Written in the mid '90s after his decade-long bout of writer's block and lukewarm comeback Grantchester Grind, The Midden is a gleeful little romp that reminded me of his earlier...
| Author | Thomas H. Cook |
| ISBN | 0553571923 |
From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" ( "Los Angeles Times Book Review" ) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense. "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath,...
| Author | Lewis Perdue |
| ISBN | 0812589718 |
The Vatican has lost its most closely held secret--irrefutable proof of a woman Messiah named Sophia. Born in the Holy Land in 310 AD, Sophia was known for performing healing miracles. Her divinity threatened early Christian dogma and she was executed as a girl by Church authorities.
In the...
| Author | Steven Savile |
| ISBN | 1935142054 |
Silver by Steven Savile is everything you could hope for in a thriller: a fast, exciting pace, a well wrought and fresh plot line, dynamic, well-rounded, well defined characters and some of the best writing I’ve seen in a thriller in a good while. If Dan Brown could write half as well as Steven Savile,...
| Author | Bradley J. Birzer |
| ISBN | 1932236201 |
Peter Jackson�s film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible treatments of the religious vision permeating...
| Author | Daniel Grotta |
| ISBN | 0762409568 |
J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of...
| Author | Richard Doetsch |
| ISBN | 0440242886 |
The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth.
An explosive ancient secret.
A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican.
In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the most...
Hobbits, Elves and Wizards: The Wonders and Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'
| Author | Michael N. Stanton |
| ISBN | 0312238266 |
I did not have to read this literary disassembling of Tolkien's famous books for coursework. I was inspired to reread The Hobbit, and then the Lord of the Rings books, after seeing the Desolation of Smaug film (hmmm....I don't remember some of these plotlines...). Never having read the Appendices in...
| Author | Ana María Matute |
| ISBN | 8423979741 |
Aranmanoth es una novela de iniciación a la vida y al amor, protagonizada por un muchacho medio humano medio mágico, hijo del Señor de Lines y de un hada de las aguas. En una Edad Media ensombrecida por guerras infinitas, Aranmanoth parte en búsqueda de su destino, alejándose de los demás mortales...
