The Odyssey

By Homer
Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Introduction by Peter V. Jones
Translated by E. V. Rieu
Revised by D. C. H. Rieu

By Homer
Read by Ian McKellen

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    About The Odyssey

    Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats – shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon – Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.

    About The Odyssey

    The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of every man’s journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer’s original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This audiobook is sure to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students.

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    Audie Awards WINNER 1997

    Praise

    “[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

    About Homer

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.

    About Homer

    Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.

    Product Details

    Hardcover
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Mar 10, 2010 | 416 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780141192444

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    Published by Penguin Audio
    Nov 29, 2005 | 784 Minutes | ISBN 9780786564781

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