The Odyssey, 9780141192444
Hardcover
A hero’s perilous journey home, battling gods and monsters alike.
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    416 pages

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    28 April 2010

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Summary

The Odyssey: A Hero’s Perilous Journey

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition. Part of a series of hardback Clothbound Classics, these collectible editions are bound in high-quality colorful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the impl…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141192444
ISBN-10:0141192445
Series:Penguin Clothbound Classics
Author:Homer, E.V. Rieu, D.C.H. Rieu, Peter Jones
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:28 April 2010
Weight:534g
Dimensions:206mm x 140mm x 35mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“[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

About The Author

Homer

HOMER is thought to have lived c.750-700 BC in Ionia and is believed to be the author of the earliest works of Western Literature- The Odyssey and The Iliad.

E. V. RIEU was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-64. His son, D. C. H. RIEU, has revised his work.

PETER JONES is former lecturer in Classics at Newcastle. He co-founded the ‘Friends of Classics’ society and is the editor of their journal and a columnist for The Spectator.

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