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ISBN-10: 0140268863
ISBN-13: 9780140268867
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 11/01/1997
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.70" W, 1.50" H

The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Translator: Robert Fagles
Introduction by: Bernard Knox
Notes by: Bernard Knox

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Price: $19.00

Overview

By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus’ adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity.

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"[Robert Fitzgerald's translation is] a masterpiece . . . An "Odyssey" worthy of the original." -"The Nation"
"[Fitzgerald's" Odyssey" and "Iliad"] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase." -"The Yale Review "
"[In] Robert Fitzgerald's translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world."
-from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney
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Details

ISBN-10: 0140268863
ISBN-13: 9780140268867
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 11/01/1997
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.70" W, 1.50" H
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