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For rounding out the field with a very old classic, I nominate "Beowulf" - preferably in the Seamus Heaney translation.
When the fearful monster Grendel comes to Hrothgar's Hall and dashes his warriors' hopes, installing himself in the great hall and eating people alive, the hero Beowulf arrives from over the sea to wrestle the beast. He saves the Danes, who sing of his triumphs, but soon the monster's mother turns up to take him hostage... Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, 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. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. |
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Speaking of Danish authors. Have you read Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (the trilogy Kransen, Husfrue and Korset)? I was just looking at it and wondering how it was. I see Penguin Classics has an English translation.
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WT Sharpe suggested Topper by Thorne Smith for Halloween reading in another thread. I would like to nominate it here.
My synopsis: George and Marian Kirby are happily married when they die together. As ghosts they haunt the staid banker Topper. Marian spends the book attempting to seduce Topper. The novel raises the question: If marriage is "till death do us part", would it be adultery for a ghost to cheat on her husband? |
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Um.. Sigrid Undset is actually Norwegian, not Danish. Could remember wrong though.
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Swerving to Swedish authors, I recommend The Holy Land series by Nobel Prize winner Par Lagerkvist. I think there are four books in the series, of which Barabbas is the best known. Try to find the hard cover version, which has very cool maze-like drawings.
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I nominate Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Second Walden. I've been meaning to read it and this might give me the impetus to do that.
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I nominate "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" the most boringest book on the planet.
You know the thread about books that you just can't bring yourself to put down? This is one you can't bring yourself to pick up. (Dorian Gray was cool in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", though.) Last edited by mores; 10-22-2009 at 09:23 AM. Reason: type-ho |
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