The Odyssey

Homer

ISBN 10: 0140268863 / ISBN 13: 9780140268867

Verlag: Penguin Classics November 1999, 1999

Minor thumbing, near fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1031935

Inhaltsangabe:

If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of an everyman’s journey through life. Odysseus’ reliance on wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles captures the energy and poetry of Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savour, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox’s superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles’s translation. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: ROBERT FAGLES was Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and the winner of the 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Odyssey
Verlag: Penguin Classics November 1999
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Trade Paperback
Zustand: Very Good