The Story of Kullervo

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The Story of Kullervo
Front cover of the 2015 hardback edition, titled "The Land of Pohja".
EditorVerlyn Flieger
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
Cover artistJ.R.R. Tolkien
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFinnish mythology
GenreEpic poetry
Published27 August 2015
PublisherHarperCollins
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN978-0008131364
Preceded byBeowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014) 
Followed byA Secret Vice (2016) 

The Story of Kullervo is a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in the Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala. Written by J. R. R. Tolkien from 1914 to 1915, it is "the first time that JRR Tolkien, who had been a poet until then, began writing prose".[1] Known as a source (among others) for Turin Turambar, Kullervo was the center of Tolkien's efforts in 1914, as he was "trying to turn one of the stories [of the Kalevala] — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story" (Letters, October 1914, #1). It was edited by Verlyn Flieger in 2010 in Tolkien Studies and republished in August 2015 by HarperCollins.[2]

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