The Odyssey
Homer
Fitzgerald, Robert (TRN)
Fitzgerald, Robert
Hardcover
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BOOK SUMMARY
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
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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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 REVIEWS
[Robert Fitzgeralds translation is] a masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original. The Nation
[Fitzgeralds Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homers 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 Fitzgeralds 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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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679410473
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679410478
Copyright: 1992
Dewey Decimal: 883/.01
Library of Congress: 92052903
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 509
Paper Weight (lb): 1.25
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