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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

By Fagles, Robert & McKellen, Ian & Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker

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If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. Translated by Robert Fagles Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox

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978-0-14086-430-4
Publisher
Penguin Audiobooks


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Reviewed on February 1, 1997

There is no better way to encounter an epic that derives from an oral tradition than to hear it narrated by a fine Shakespearean actor. This requires a great translation, and this shining new verse translation by Robert Fagles--who also translated The Iliad (Audio Reviews, LJ 7/92)--has been rightly hailed as a masterpiece. It captures, in swift rhythms and flawless utterance, the tone, the temper, the very life...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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