Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative - Softcover

Anonymous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451626516 ISBN 13: 9780451626516

Publisher: Signet, 1972

Synopsis

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original.

About this title

About the Author

Herbert Mason is William Goodwin Aurelio professor of history and religious thought at Boston University. He lives in Phillipston, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0451626516
• ISBN 13: 9780451626516
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126