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Title: Gilgamesh
Condition: New
Author: Stephen Mitchell
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1861977980
EAN: 9781861977984
ISBN: 9781861977984
Edition: Main
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 06/10/2005
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 126mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 200g
Release Year: 2005

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