5th trade paperback printing
Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends.
Publishing Info: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2000
ISBN: 9780374525743
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that skilled in all ways of contending.
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.
So begins Robert Fitzgerlad's magnificent translation of the Odyssey. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyone's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.
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