The Odyssey
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Homer author Robert Fitzgerald translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Sep '07
Should be back in stock very soon
The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. 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.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.
Homer's Odyssey is still enchanting readers after thousands of years * Guardian *
Surely the best and truest Odyssey in the English language * Herald Tribune *
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 * George Steiner *
A strong salty flavour of its own. And it makes you see things * C.S. Lewis *
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 * London Review of Books *
ISBN: 9780099511687
Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 27mm
Weight: 329g
480 pages