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Beowulf

by Anonymous

A hero fights a monster, then the monster’s mother, then, decades later, a dragon, because glory apparently has no retirement plan. It survived on a single manuscript that nearly burned in a fire. Treat it gently; it has already been luckier than it had any right to be.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 2 hr 40 min
Where to find it
On the Legend shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #16328. In the public domain in the United States.

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