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The Odyssey

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511687

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £6.99

The Odyssey

  • Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

  • Homer

  • Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)

Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511687

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • "Homer's Odyssey is still enchanting readers after thousands of years"

    Guardian

  • "Surely the best and truest Odyssey in the English language"

    Herald Tribune

  • "Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has the economy and soar of a poet"

    George Steiner

  • "A strong salty flavour of its own. And it makes you see things"

    C.S. Lewis

  • "The Homeric poems are interesting...because of the way in which they present human shocks and surprises... It is the surprising twist that war brings to the domestic...which makes Homer repeatedly shocking"

    London Review of Books

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About the Author

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Caroline Alexander is the author of seven books of non-fiction including the international bestsellers The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition and The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. A contributing writer for National Geographic, Alexander has also written for the New Yorker, Smithsonian and Granta among other publications. Alexander’s latest books are Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure and the Mystery of the Saxons and The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad and the Trojan War. Between 1982 and 1985, Alexander established a department of Classics at the University of Malawi, in central-east Africa.

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