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

The Odyssey




Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child

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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A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Military Dispatches

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.