Beowulf
A hero is hired to kill a monster that has been plaguing the land.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1892
Latest release
Jul 28, 2026
Pages
103
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Story
- I. The Life and Death of Scyld
- II. Scyld’s Successors—Hrothgar’s Great Mead-Hall
- III. Grendel the Murderer
- IV. Beowulf Goes to Hrothgar’s Assistance
- V. The Geats Reach Heorot
- VI. Beowulf Introduces Himself at the Palace
- VII. Hrothgar and Beowulf
- VIII. Hrothgar and Beowulf—Continued
- IX. Unferth Taunts Beowulf
- Beowulf Silences Unferth
- XI. All Sleep Save One
- XII. Grendel and Beowulf
- XIII. Grendel Is Vanquished
- XIV. Rejoicing of the Danes
- XV. Hrothgar’s Gratitude
- XVI. Hrothgar Lavishes Gifts Upon His Deliverer
- XVII. Banquet (Continued)
- XVIII. The Finn Episode (Continued)
- XIX. Beowulf Receives Further Honor
- The Mother of Grendel
- XXI. Hrothgar’s Account of the Monsters
- XXII. Beowulf Seeks Grendel’s Mother
- XXIII. Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother
- XXIV. Beowulf Is Double-Conqueror
- XXV. Beowulf Brings His Trophies
- XXVI. Hrothgar Moralizes—Rest After Labor
- XXVII. Sorrow at Parting
- XXVIII. The Homeward Journey—The Two Queens
- XXIX. Beowulf and Higelac
- Beowulf Narrates His Adventures to Higelac
- XXXI. Gift-Giving Is Mutual
- XXXII. The Hoard and the Dragon
- XXXIII. Brave Though Aged—Reminiscences
- XXXIV. Beowulf Seeks the Dragon
- XXXV. Reminiscences (Continued)—Beowulf’s Last Battle
- XXXVI. Wiglaf the Trusty
- XXXVII. The Fatal Struggle
- XXXVIII. Wiglaf Plunders the Dragon’s Den—Beowulf’s Death
- XXXIX. The Dead Foes—Wiglaf’s Bitter Taunts
- XL. The Messenger of Death
- XLI. The Messenger’s Retrospect
- XLII. Wiglaf’s Sad Story—The Hoard Carried Off
- XLIII. The Burning of Beowulf