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Michael Swanton, trans.
Anglo-Saxon Prose.

Published London: J. M. Dent & Sons, revised 1985 reprint (original edn. was 1975).
Series: Everyman’s Library.
ISBN 0460118099;
ISBN-13 9780460118095.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Guernsey Press, Channel Islands.
Size: 122x188x13mm.
Page count: xxvi,188pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some rubs and creases on the covers, some wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; pages yellowed with age; the spine is a bit rubbed and wrinkled, but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.50
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Weight without packaging: 148g.

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Contents: 30 extracts organised under the following section headings: Legal prose; Documentary prose; Alfred; Life of St. Guthlac; Blickling homilist; Ælfric; Wulfstan; Gospel of Nicodemus; Apollonius of Tyre; A collection of proverbs; Bald's Leechbook; Byrhtferth — prologue to the Manual.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 16pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: no


See also | Old English literature | Prose | Anthologies |

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