The odyssey, paperback/homer

Robert Fagless stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life.

In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homers original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homers students.

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