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Andrew George's masterly new translation (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

A Penguin Classic

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating 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.

The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George’s gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluent narrative and will long rank as the definitive English G

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A masterly verse translation * The Times *
Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work * London Review of Books *

EPIC OF GILGAMESH PENGUIN CLASSICS ANDREW

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 December 2002
      ISBN-13 9780140449198
      978-0140449198
      ISBN-10 0140449191
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Andrew George's masterly new translation (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature

      A Penguin Classic

      Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating 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.

      The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George’s gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluent narrative and will long rank as the definitive English G

      Trade Review
      A masterly verse translation * The Times *
      Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work * London Review of Books *

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