Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
by Mason, HerbertEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-08
Publisher(s): Houghton Miff
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Summary
Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original.
Author Biography
Herbert Mason is William Goodwin Aurelio professor of history and religious thought at Boston University. He lives in Phillipston, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative | p. 11 |
| Names and Places Appearing in the Narrative | p. 95 |
| About the Gilgamesh | p. 97 |
| An Autobiographical Postscript | p. 107 |
| Afterword | p. 117 |
| Afterword to the Mariner Edition | p. 127 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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