Homer

<b>'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicist-this is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child<br/><br/></b><b>'This may be the best translation of <i>The Odyssey </i>yet' Edith Hall, <i>Telegraph, </i>Books of the Year</b><br/><br/><b>A magnificent, acclaimed new translation of the </b><i>Odyssey</i><b> by bestselling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn</b><br/><br/>With his <i>Odyssey</i>, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike - a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.<br/><br/>Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic's formal qualities - meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance - and in so doing restores to Homer's master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer's verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.<br/><br/>The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical <i>Odyssey</i> in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer's work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn's <i>Odyssey</i> is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.

<b>A Penguin Classics deluxe boxed set of Robert Fagles' translations of <i>The Iliad</i> and <i>The Odyssey</i>.</b><br/><br/>Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, <i>The Iliad</i> is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic.<br/><br/>If <i>The Iliad</i> is the world's greatest war story, then <i>The Odyssey</i> is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.<br/><br/>Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.

<b>The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series <i>The OA<br/></i></b><i><br/></i><b>A Penguin Classic</b><br/> &#160;<br/> Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to&#160;the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the <i>Iliad </i>is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.<br/> &#160;<br/> Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the <i>Iliad</i>'s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls "an astonishing performance."<br/><br/> This Penguin Classics Deluxe edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<br/><br/> <br/>9780140275360