National Book Award Finalist: The most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic.
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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.
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A National Book Award finalist, Herbert Masonโs retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poetโs long affinity with the original.
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โMr. Masonโs version is the one I would recommend to the first-time reader.โ โVictor Howes, The Christian Science Monitor
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โLike the Tolkien cycle, this poem will be read with profit and joy for generations to come.โ โWilliam Alfred, Harvard University