An edition of Gilgamesh (1992)

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A New Rendering in English Verse

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An edition of Gilgamesh (1992)

Gilgamesh

A New Rendering in English Verse

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
96

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Subjects

Adaptations, Kings and rulers, Poetry, Epic poetry, American, Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian, American Epic poetry, Gilgamesh, Poetry (poetic works by one author)

Places

Erech (Extinct city)

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Gilgamesh
January 1, 1993, Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Paperback - 1st edition
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Cover of: Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
June 1, 1993, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Gilgamesh: a new rendering in English verse
1993, Noonday Press
in English - 1st Noonday Press ed.
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Cover of: Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh: a new rendering in English verse
1992, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
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First Sentence

"of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone. He built Uruk."

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Library of Congress
PJ3771.G5 E5 1992

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7424322M
Internet Archive
gilgameshnewrend00ferr
ISBN 10
0374523835
ISBN 13
9780374523831
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6136949
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138373

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First Sentence

"of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone. He built Uruk."

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