The Metamorphoses of Ovid
✍ Scribed by Allen Mandelbaum
- Publisher
- HMH Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1328787281
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✦ Synopsis
Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. "[An] extraordinary translation...brilliant" (Booklist). With an Introduction by the Translator.
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