One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseuss encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics. Robert Fitzgeralds much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europes most influential work of poetry. This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed). “[Robert Fitzgerald’s translation is] a masterpiece... More than 2000 free eBooks to read or download in english for your computer, smartphone, ereader or tablet!, The Odyssey, Homer. Get your own beautiful, free copy of The Odyssey by Homer here at Planet eBook. Download, read and share it right now! The NOOK Book (eBook) of the The Odyssey by Homer at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $25 or more! The Odyssey, with eBook has 727,291 ratings and 8,434 reviews. Stephen said: So my first “non-school related experience with Homer’s classic tale, and m. Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. 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.
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