Odyssey by Homer (2015, Mass Market)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451474333

ISBN-139780451474339

eBay Product ID (ePID)215240974

Product Key Features

Book TitleOdyssey

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicClassics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, General, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry, Fiction

AuthorHomer

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight6.4 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"[Robert Fitzgerald's translation is] a masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original." The Nation "[Fitzgerald's Odyssey and Iliad ] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase." The Yale Review "[In] Robert Fitzgerald's translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world." from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Afterword byNicolson, Adam

Dewey Decimal883.01

SynopsisTHE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME--NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD. Homer's Odyssey has been called "the first novel," "the first expression of the mind in literary form," and "the best story ever written." Whether fans of suspense, fantasy or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer's vibrant picture of Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities--all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son. Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism--the saga has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time. But, as Aristotle pointed out, "his greatness was that he himself was nowhere to be found in his story. His characters were everywhere." Blind and possibly illiterate, Homer has still "in loftiness of thought surpass'd"* any storyteller since 900 B.C.E. *John Dryden, Homer's epic tale of travel, monsters and Gods in an accessible translation by W.H.D. Rouse. Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homer's story follows Odysseus on a decade-long journey as he flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the Sirens, averts his eyes from Medusa and docks in exotic cities - ever longing to return to his wife and son. Read the epic story in this accessibly, lively and compelling translation, now available in an affordable Signet edition., THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME--SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Whether fans of suspense, fantasy, or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer's epic tale of the legendary Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in distant cities--all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son. Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism--the saga of The Odyssey has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time.

LC Classification NumberPA4021.A2