Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative

Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic o…

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