Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/09/2007
ISBN: 9780099511687
Length: 480 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm
Weight: 330g
RRP: £6.99
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
Published: 06/09/2007
ISBN: 9780099511687
Length: 480 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm
Weight: 330g
RRP: £6.99
Homer's Odyssey is still enchanting readers after thousands of years
Surely the best and truest Odyssey in the English language
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
A strong salty flavour of its own. And it makes you see things
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