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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.

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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 *

Homer Odyssey

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    A Paperback / softback by Homer, Robert Fitzgerald

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 6 September 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099511687
      978-0099511687
      ISBN-10 0099511681
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: poetry and poets Books by Homer

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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 *

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