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The odyssey
Homer
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- Book Synopsis
- If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles captures the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savour, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
- About The Author
- ROBERT FAGLES was Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and the winner of the 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780140268867
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, (27 November 1997)
- Number of Pages
- 541
- Weight
- 593 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 212 x 147 x 37 mm
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