Gilgamesh

Derrek Hines

earliest edition we have, 2002 Chatto & Windus, 2002 66 pages

In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world's oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and...

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Gilgamesh edition · 2010 · Penguin Random House · 9781407063638
Gilgamesh edition · 2009 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307527974
Gilgamesh paperback · 2007 · Oberon Books · 96 pages · 9781840026542
Gilgamesh edition · 2004 · Anchor Books · 66 pages
Gilgamesh edition · 2002 · Chatto & Windus · 66 pages

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