Beowulf
Cover mockup.
Beowulf
Beowulf crosses the sea to free the Danish king’s hall from the monster Grendel, fights Grendel’s mother in her lake, and at the end of a long reign meets a dragon.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–12
- First published
- c. 1000 (the surviving manuscript)
- This edition
- Francis B. Gummere’s verse translation, complete.
- Pages
- 150
- Prompts
- 42, one at the close of each section
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every section of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Scyld began as “friendless, a foundling,” and his people load his ship as richly as the ones who first sent him out “sole on the seas, a suckling child.” Then the poet admits that no one can say “who harbored that freight!” Is the treasure thanks, payment, or something else? Underline each gift in the passage, and who gives it.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages150
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts42, one at the close of each section
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 7–12