Homer's Daughter
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2012
Summary
In Homer’s Daughter, Robert Graves retells the ancient epic, The Odyssey. This bold reimagining of the classic tale suggests that its author was not the legendary blind poet Homer, but a young woman from Western Sicily who named herself Nausica.
As Robert Graves describes it, Homer’s Daughter is “the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father’s throne from usurpation, herself from a distasteful marriage, and her two younger brothers from butchery …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141197661 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141197668 |
| Author: | Robert Graves |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 1mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A great imagination and above all a powerful intellect
A great imagination and above all a powerful intellect * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Robert Graves
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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