Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack that no man heard an outcry; but when the dawn came, thirty of Hothgar's best and noblest thanes were missing.Only Beowulf, foremost among warriors, has... Zobraziť viac
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In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion´s honour, was lost.... Zobraziť viac
The Eagle of the Ninth is one of the most celebrated children's books of the twentieth century and is now the subject of a major film. This new edition, with its movie tie-in cover, is being published to coincide with the film's release. Zobraziť viac