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Alina (alin01) | 21 comments Hello! I was wondering if it would be possible to change the description on this edition of Beowulf?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The description is currently in Italian, while the edition is an English edition.

The publisher's page: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393320978

Actual English description, taken from the publisher page:

"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 about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader."


This is just a small issue, but if there's time maybe someone could change the description! Thanks :)


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Emmy de Reus (nyneve) | 19436 comments Done.

Please edit this topic's title, marking it as [DONE], using the tiny EDIT-button at the right of the topic's title (only available for desktop/laptop, not in the app). This will help the other Librarians to focus on the requests that are still open.


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Alina (alin01) | 21 comments Emmy wrote: "Done.

Please edit this topic's title, marking it as [DONE], using the tiny EDIT-button at the right of the topic's title (only available for desktop/laptop, not in the app). This will help the oth..."


Thank you!! Will do:)


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