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  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Beowulf

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poems of Seamus Heaney

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    This definitive collection of Seamus Heaney's poetry, published in a single volume for the first time, gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate's long and varied career.Seamus Heaney's voice is like no other—"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker). Published in a single ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Translations of Seamus Heaney

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    The complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator.Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, "something imperishable and great" (James Wood, The Guardian). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI caused a similar stir, providing "a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Daedalus Is Dead

    by Seamus Sullivan ...
    A cautionary tale of fatherhood and ambition, told through the reimagined Greek myth of Daedalus, Icarus, King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur.Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The constructor of the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur. And the grieving father of Icarus, who plunged into the sea as father and son flew from the grasp of the tyrannical King ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Opened Ground

    Selected Poems, 1966–1996

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    From the Irish Nobel laureate: Essential poems selected by the author from throughout his career, plus several previously unselected works and his Nobel lecture."[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today." —Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book ReviewOpened Ground includes the essential poems from Seamus Heaney's twelve ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Death of a Naturalist

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    The 1966 prize-winning debut poetry collection from the Irish Nobel laureate, "the best Irish poet since W. B. Yeats" (Robert Lowell)."His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time." —C.B. Cox in the Spectator</stron... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mall of Cthulhu

    by Seamus Cooper ...
    A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions. Her rescuer, an awkward, geeky folklore student named Teddy, single-handedly slew the undead occupants of the Omega Alpha sorority house, spurred into heroic action by fate itself, inexorably intertwining his and Laura's destinies ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Human Chain

    Poems

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    An award-winning poetry collection that's "a joy on every level" from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( The Washington Post ).A Boston Globe Best Poetry BookWinner of the Griffin Poetry PrizeWinner of the Poetry Now AwardSeamus Heaney's Human Chain elicits continuities and solidaritie... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Station Island

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing in The Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called the narrative sequence in Seamus Heaney's Station Island "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years." ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Strange and Surprising Ireland

    The People, The Land, The Odd & The Extraordinary (Irish History, Facts, and Trivia)

    by Seamus Mullarkey, Séamus Mullarkey ...
    Discover the magical folktales, peculiar stories, and charming figures of the Emerald Isle in this giftable book perfect for lovers of Irish culture, language, and Ireland itself.This captivating book takes you on a journey through the heart of Irish culture, unraveling quirky traditions, little-known myths, and fascinating stories that have shaped the unique spirit of Ireland. From fairies and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Redress of Poetry

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    "Self-deprecating but delighting . . . a wonderful addition to the Heaney canon—as life-enhancing in its own way as the poems it celebrates." —Andrew Motion, The GuardianNobel Prize–Winning PoetHeaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD