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Homer's Daughter

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141197661

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £14.99

Homer's Daughter

In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father's throne from usurpation, herself from a distasteful marriage, and her two younger brothers from butchery by boldly making things happen, instead of sitting still and hoping for the best.'

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141197661

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £14.99

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  • A great imagination and above all a powerful intellect

    Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

Robert Graves

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

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Extracts

5 moving poems from the men on the frontline of the Somme

The camaraderie forged between soldiers during the horrors of World War I inspired some of the greatest verse in English Literature. Here to mark Remembrance Day are some of our favourites.
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Podcasts

Writing the First World War feat. Jeremy Paxman, Robert Graves and Pat Barker

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