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THE ODYSSEY - HOMER KARTONIERT (TB)

The epic tale of Odysseus s journey home one of the earliest and greatest works of Western
literatureIf the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic  the Odyssey is literature's grandest
evocation of an everyman's journey through 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.E. V. Rieu s translation has long been beloved and celebrated by scholars and readers
alike  and for this Penguin Classics edition  classicist D. C. H. Rieu has revised the work of
his father. This edition also includes an introduction by Peter V. Jones.For more than seventy
years  Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking
world. With more than 1 700 titles  Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best
works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide
authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and
contemporary authors  as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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