Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
β Scribed by Homer; Robert Fagles (Translator); Bernard M.W. Knox (Introduction)
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd;Viking
- Year
- 2010;1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 447 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY: 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 implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon, Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.
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