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The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Centuries old and still captivating readers, The Odyssey has become a genre in and of itself. Join Odysseus and Co. as they trick a cyclops, outsmart syrens and vie for survival against the ever-crafty creatures of Greek mythology. Told in beautiful verse, it's time to grab an oar and help paddle this crew back home to Ithaca.
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English" (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)
Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed hei...
Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed hei...
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