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The odyssey

HomerKnox, Bernard(Notes by)Knox, Bernard(Introduction by)Fagles, Robert(Translated by)
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Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War.

A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin Classic B format.

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Penguin Classics
0140268863 / 9780140268867
Paperback / softback
883.01
27/11/1997
United Kingdom
English
541p.
22 cm
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Quiz No: 212043, Points 24.00, Book Level 10.30,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
This translation originally published: New York: Viking, 1996.
Translator Robert Fagles is a past winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Translator Robert Fagles is a past winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DCF Poetry by individual poets, DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, DSC Literary studies: poetry & poets, FC Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FQ Myth & legend told as fiction