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The Odyssey (New edition)

HomerNicolson, Adam(Afterword by)Steiner, Deborah(Introduction by)Rouse, W. H. D.(Translated by)
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One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture.

The tale of Odysseus's encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics.Robert Fitzgerald's much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europe's most influential work of poetry.

This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

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Penguin
069819828X / 9780698198289
eBook (EPUB)
883.01
01/12/2015
English
384 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. This translation originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 1996 Description based on print version record.