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028 _aVariety Books Publishers Distributors 
_b: 2/22 Ansari Road, New Delhi
_c:IM1999
_d24/07/2018
082 _a892.1 GIL
100 _aGilgamesh (Legendary character).
245 _aThe epic of Gilgamesh
_b: a new translation, analogues, criticism.
_c/Gilgamesh (Legendary character).
260 _aNew York
_b: Norton
_c, ©2001.
300 _axxiii, 229 pages
_b: illustrations
_c ; 22 cm.
365 _b1139
505 _aThe text of the Epic of Gilgamesh -- Analogues to the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems ; The Hittite Gilgamesh ; The Gilgamesh letter -- Criticism. The Gilgamesh epic : a masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia / William Moran ; "And death the journey's end" : the Gilgamesh epic / Thorkild Jacobsen ; Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic / Rivkah Harris -- Gilgamesh remembers a dream / Hillary Major -- Glossary of proper names.
520 _aAn English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context.
650 _aFiction
655 _aFear of death
_bImmortality
_bCompanionship
700 _aGilgamesh.
942 _cBOOK
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