What is the 'full' version of The Epic of Gilgamesh?

Question

I looked at a PDF of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and it was very pretty. Then, I decided that I wanted to purchase the physical copy of the book. While the version that I read online, which I thought was very thorough, was only of maybe 30 pages, the books to buy from Amazon were sometimes 130 pages, some well into the 200s, and none less than 50. I imagine that the version I read could not have been one in entirety, and I found it odd that these books had so many different lengths.

Answer 1

There can be many reasons for the varying lengths. Yet, rather than get into that, I suggest that you read either the older translation by NK Sandars or the more recent one by Andrew George. Both are excellent but the former is a more poetic prose version and the latter is a fine scholarly version.