FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
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Essential version of the classic adventure story,
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This review is from: The Odyssey (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (School & Library Binding)
Merely reviewing the Odyssey would be superfluous: it is, quite simply, the greatest adventure story of all-time. Its age and long endurance have only served to increase its reputation. There have been countless translations - including Alexander Pope's famous one, as well as the standard Oxford text - and this is the most recent major translation. It is also an essential purchase for any fan of the Odyssey, and, I think, the best place to start for those who have never read the epic in any form before. Fagles has given us a startling new modern verse translation, for which he has been widely acclaimed and given numerous awards, and it helps to restore the epic poem to some of its original Hellenic splendor, while, at the same time, being extremely exciting, immensely readable, and highly commendable. Fagles's translation is a masterpiece in itself. Aside from the masterful translation, the book is a deluxe must-own: complete with library binding, it also includes a long (60+ page) introduction from Bernard Knox, which is scholarly and interesting, while also remaining immensely readable. Knox has also provided deluxe notes for the edition, and it is further rounded out by such bonuses as a series of maps depicting Homeric geography, a pronunciation dictionary, and several other sections giving you background information on the Odyssey, Homer, and the translation. Certainly the definitive version of The Odyssey available to the mass market today, I cannot fathom why it isn't more popular here at Amazon, as it is the version that you most consisentently see on bookshelves across the country. Let us help change that by making this the version of The Odyssey you purchase, if you are at all interested in it, Homer, or ancienct Greek epics.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb,
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This review is from: The Odyssey (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (School & Library Binding)
A long review is pointless. This is a gripping translation of a great work. Fagles has accomplished the difficult task of rendering the formal language of the Odyssey into a form of modern English that apparently preserves the poetry of the original. Very easy to read and quite powerful. Though I have not looked at the popular Fitzgerald translation for many years, I would have to say that I prefer this one. This edition comes with an excellent introductory essay and notes by Bernard Knox. Readers who enjoy this book and translation should immediately pick up Fagles' translation of the Iliad. The latter is an even greater epic and probably harder to translate. The Fagles version of the Iliad is outstanding.
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This review is from: The Odyssey (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (School & Library Binding)
I think that this book is interesting for me,i like this book because is about a history that happened in real life that in those years the people were diffrent then now. You can find the universal values in the book i like it because there was a really good history. I recomend this book to the people because its very interesting.
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