The Story of Odysseus. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Story of Odysseus

463pp.; 18.9 x 13 cm. Blue cloth boards stamped in blind and gold to front, and in gold to spine. White dust-jacket printed in brown, red and black. Published London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937 From the library of A. David Moody “Mr. Ezra Pound is the onelie begetter of this book. He suggested it, and he read the first part with Odyssean patience; his trenchant comments, well deserved, gave me the courage of my convictions, and I hope he will now find it a readable story, that is, a story which can be read aloud and heard without boredom.”   — W. H. D. Rouse, p. v Rouse’s modern prose translation of Homer’s Odyssey. First edition. A fine copy in a faded and spotted dust-jacket with a little edge-wear. Contemporary ink gift inscription to ffep. A number of contemporary newspaper clippings laid-in to the front and back of this book, each relating to either this translation, Rouse’s Story of Achilles, or other Homeric publications.