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Best-selling author and editor Headley explains that, like any translator, she wants us to understand Beowulf and also get something of the poetry its contemporaries would have exp erienced. Headley looked at the original with fresh eyes, but also at the long history of translations, and how the story has changed over the centuries to meet the moment. In her translation to modern English (with twists!), we understand that justice is rarely served, and greedy dragons live among us. Like new. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. Paper. USED. $10.00 Show more