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  • Published: 2 December 1992
  • ISBN: 9781857150940
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $30.00

The Odyssey

A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn




A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn

Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'.
Introduced by Seamus Heaney

  • Published: 2 December 1992
  • ISBN: 9781857150940
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $30.00

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The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Botchan
Military Dispatches
The Prelude

About the authors

Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His many translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), and Homer’s Odyssey. Robert Fagles passed away in 2008.