The World's Desire (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang

Overview

Picking up where Homer left off, this 1890 collaboration tells the story of Odysseus after the death of his wife, Penelope.  The widowed Odysseus is visited by Helen of Troy, and sent on a journey that brings him to Egypt and Queen Meriamun, who desires him for herself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411447912
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	325 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, which was the inspiration for the character Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.

 

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and folklorist.  His collections of fairy tales, each volume titled with the name of a different color, constitute a lasting contribution to folklore and the literature of the fantastic.  He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, from psychic phenomena and anthropology to popular retellings of classic myths and legends.