The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

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Random House, May 25, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 480 pages
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? This rich and beautiful adventure story is one of the most influential works of literature in the world.

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The Odyssey
Homer,Robert Fitzgerald
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About the author (2010)

Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece.

Robert Fitzgerald was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus at Harvard University.He was a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.He published four volumes of his own verse during his lifetime.His translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad, and of Virgil's Aeniad, won him many honours and are universally acknowledged to be among the finest of their kind this century. He died in 1985.

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TitleThe Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
AuthorHomer
Translated byRobert Fitzgerald
PublisherRandom House, 2010
ISBN1407066277, 9781407066271
Length480 pages
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