New York Times bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award.
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf? and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

一场由美女海伦引起的十年鏖战--特洛伊战争！一本有关特洛伊战争的长篇光辉史诗，一部欧洲古典文学的不朽名著--《荷马史诗》！！！希腊英雄阿基琉斯和大无畏的王子赫克托尔在本书中共同演绎了一场为了荣誉、尊严的惊天地泣鬼神的世纪大战……

《中国海军抗日战争史诗:铁甲家族(套装上下册)》是一部从文化角度审视两个中日海军世家从甲午海战到抗日战争逾时半个世纪对决的长篇小说。通过福州海军林中天世家和日本海军别浦左卫门世家的生歌哭死、情天恨海、悲欢离合的命运贯穿了抗日战争中一系列重大事件：淞沪抗战、南京大屠杀、江阴血战、武汉会战、长江布雷战、长沙会战、衡阳保卫战、重庆大轰炸，使之栩栩如生，历历在目。书中对中日两军的大会战和两个家族海战的再现，场面恢宏，气势磅薄，又交织着人物命运，起伏跌宕，独树一帜。中日甲午海战正是铁甲战舰时代的一曲悲歌，林中天家族失败于无法在晚清时代用鲜血书写维护中国海权的理想。可歌可泣的是在铁甲舰时代终结后的八年抗战中，林中天家族仍用铁甲战舰打败了拥有潜艇、飞机和用统一口径主炮武装战舰的别浦左卫门家族。中国近代海军是一支以福州人为主体的精英，中日甲午海战是他们第一次悲壮的毁灭，八年抗战则是他们第二次英勇的殉国。战争异化了人类，甚至使战争变成了家族间的恩仇，乃至个人间的对决，《中国海军抗日战争史诗:铁甲家族(套装上下册)》首次揭露了这种嬗变。