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Beowulf Books
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by (shelved 99 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.50 — 340,882 ratings — published 1000

by (shelved 28 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.71 — 46,018 ratings — published 1976

by (shelved 25 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.69 — 41,897 ratings — published 1971

by (shelved 19 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,248 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 12 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.41 — 8,001 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 11 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,244 ratings — published 1968

by (shelved 5 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,441 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 5 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,701 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,250 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,501 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.68 — 669 ratings — published 1956

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,305 ratings — published 1000

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.51 — 393 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.77 — 30 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.17 — 47 ratings — published 1959

by (shelved 4 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,019 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.81 — 52 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.11 — 275 ratings — published 1936

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.53 — 111 ratings — published

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.86 — 146 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.12 — 138 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.52 — 99 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1959

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.13 — 61 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 3 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,375 ratings — published 1988

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.70 — 191 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.05 — 44 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,043 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.52 — 2,300 ratings — published 1000

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.07 — 74 ratings — published

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 2.92 — 12 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.81 — 507 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,483 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.91 — 301 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,723 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.79 — 42 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.32 — 199 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.28 — 194 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.31 — 52 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.80 — 64 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.38 — 366 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.04 — 52 ratings — published 1940

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 3.76 — 129 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.17 — 261 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published

by (shelved 2 times as beowulf)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 1998

“But, in the end, it was none of these things, of course. It was only Hrothgar's claustrophobic mead hall with the monster waiting in the darkness without. We had our Grendel, to be sure. We even had our Hrothgar if one squints a bit at sad King Billy's poor slouched profile.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion

“Mammoth columns were rooted in the flagstones and the sawdust. Arches flew in broad hoops from capital to capital; crossing in diagonals, they groined the barrel-vaults that hung dimly above the smoke. The place should have been lit by pine-torches in stanchions. It was beginning to change, turning now, under my clouding glance, into the scenery for some terrible Germanic saga, where snow vanished under the breath of dragons whose red-hot blood thawed sword-blades like icicles. It was a place for battle-axes and bloodshed and the last pages of the Nibelungenlied when the capital of Hunland is in flames and everybody in the castle hacked to bits. Things grew quickly darker and more fluid; the echo, the splash, the boom and the road of fast currents sunk this beer-hall under the Rhine-bed; it became a cavern full of more dragons, misshapen guardians of gross treasure; or the fearful abode, perhaps, where Beowulf, after tearing the Grendel's arm out of its socket, tracked him over the snow by the bloodstains and, reaching the mere's edge, dived in to swim many fathoms down and slay his loathsome water-hag of a mother in darkening spirals of gore.”
― A Time of Gifts
― A Time of Gifts