The Story of Kullervo
Editor | Verlyn Flieger |
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Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
Cover artist | J.R.R. Tolkien |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Finnish mythology |
Genre | Epic poetry |
Published | 27 August 2015 |
Publisher | HarperCollins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
ISBN | 978-0008131364 |
Preceded by | Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014) |
Followed by | A 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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- Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. (2023) [1981]. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-35-865298-4.
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