**'_The Odyssey_ is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' _Guardian_** The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of
The odyssey
โ Scribed by Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer
- Book ID
- 100599635
- Publisher
- Barnes and Noble Books
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 320 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, NY
- ISBN
- 1411432835
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โฆ Subjects
Fiction
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