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The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George (2003, UK-B Format Paperback, Revised edition)

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The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition (2020) and updated with newly discovered material. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind's eternal struggle with the fear of death. This new edition of Andrew George's translation has been extensively revised to include recently discovered fragments and new sources.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140449191
ISBN-13
9780140449198
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2342611

Product Key Features

Book Title
Epic of Gilgamesh
Author
Andrew George
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Classics, Epic, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Poetry, Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pj3771.G5e5 2003
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
"Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work" - London Review of Books "Humankind's first literary achievement... Gilgamesh should compel us as the well-spring of which we are inheritors...Andrew George provides an excellent critical and historical introduction." -Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday "This volume will endure as one of the milestones markers...[George] expertly and easily conducts his readers on a delightful and moving epic journey." -Samuel A. Meier, Times Literary Supplement "Appealingly presented and very readably translated...it still comes as an exhilarating surprise to find the actions and emotions of the Sumerian superhero coming to us with absolute immediacy over 30-odd centuries. - Scotsman "Andrew George has formed an English text from the best of the tablets, differentiating his complex sources but allowing the general reader a clear run at one of the first enduring stories ever told." -Peter Stothard, The Times "An exemplary combination of scholarship and lucidity...very impressive...invaluable as a convenient guide to all the different strands which came together to produce the work we now call Gilgamesh ." -Alan Wall, Literary Review, "It's among the oldest surviving works of Western civilization, from before literature was literature. It's my go-to whenever loss and life have tumbled me (often). Amazingly, and perhaps depressingly ( When will they ever learn ?), Gilgamesh tackles all the issues we are dealing with today: a bad leader and how he becomes an enlightened one (here's hoping), environmental degradation, class and race -- i.e. who gets to be called human -- lust and love; loss and death. The language is haunting, incantatory, at the border of song and silence." --Julia Alvarez "Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work" -- London Review of Books "Humankind's first literary achievement... Gilgamesh should compel us as the well-spring of which we are inheritors...Andrew George provides an excellent critical and historical introduction." --Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday "This volume will endure as one of the milestones markers...[George] expertly and easily conducts his readers on a delightful and moving epic journey." --Samuel A. Meier, Times Literary Supplement "Appealingly presented and very readably translated...it still comes as an exhilarating surprise to find the actions and emotions of the Sumerian superhero coming to us with absolute immediacy over 30-odd centuries. -- Scotsman "Andrew George has formed an English text from the best of the tablets, differentiating his complex sources but allowing the general reader a clear run at one of the first enduring stories ever told." --Peter Stothard, The Times "An exemplary combination of scholarship and lucidity...very impressive...invaluable as a convenient guide to all the different strands which came together to produce the work we now call Gilgamesh ." --Alan Wall, Literary Review
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-269516
Dewey Decimal
899.9/51
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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4 out of 5 stars
by heldt2970Jan 22, 2016
Historically Wonderful But A Tough Read
I am not a literary expert. I have no credentials as an historian or literary critic. Therefore, this review is from a layman's perspective. The Epic of Gilgamesh is of great value because of its age and its place in the very dawn of literature, but it is not a good read because of the many omissions. The omissions of course are because many fragments are missing or unreadable. I am happy to have the book but I gave up trying to finish reading it.
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by ricwika0Apr 20, 2022
Excellent
The "Epic of Gilgamesh" is a compelling yet long-neglected work about a fundamental human dilemma: death, after the most noteworthy of achievements. In the "Iliad", Akilleos wants fame even though he knows he will become a shade. Gilgamesh, though, wants to entirely avoid death, and he learns that he can't. And so, rather like Akilleos, he falls back on the fame that he will leave, although he has to learn this, while Akilleos already knows it. George's translation is wonderful, and includes a great deal of new scholarship in both recent discoveries and the revised interpretations these discoveries allow.
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by clhol69May 18, 2021
Gilgamesh...Anonymous
I have wanted to read, first hand, the original world flood story, always known to most as Noah's flood. Certainly the ancient Jews who conceived the form of the Torah as we see it today, were influenced by the post-Sumerian Babylonians given their captivity. Sure enough...too many coincidental details to dissuade argument. Maybe I shoukd check out the old Hopi myths to round out my childhood educational biases.
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by ally4314Dec 28, 2021
Helped me save for school
I got it for school, it's the exact book I needed, just like in the picture and the condition is good. Would recommend as an alternative to buying at the bookstore.
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