The Odyssey Book Reviews

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Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox
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363

The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox Book Summary

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles

A Penguin Classic
 
Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement."

If 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. 

In the myths and legends  retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.

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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Book Name The Odyssey
Genre Poetry
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.41 MB

The Odyssey (Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox) Book Reviews 2024

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Great book and translation, terrible E-edition. The book and translation itself are amazing. If you want to read Homer, Fagles is the way to go. But this e-version is absolutely terrible. The spacing is awful and there's distracting numbers off to the side. Do yourself a favor and just buy the paperback. It's not worth the money they charge for the iBooks edition.

Not sure to buy.... Is this book contain audio?

Formatting. The formatting just does not look good in this book, otherwise it's great.

An excellent story by an excellent translator!. Exactly what the title to my review says! I, personally, think it's well worth the $12.99 price tag!

Formatting absolutely blows. I am unsure if it is a problem with iBooks or the formatting of this book, but this is the only book I’ve read in iBooks where highlighting only works 25% of the time. If you are reading this for a class, which I assume 98% of this book’s reader base is, then you should get a real copy or just another translation.

S tier. So good 10/10

Genius. Self explanatory

A true epic. As I'm sure many have figured out, there is already a free version of this. However, that was translated sometime before the Great Depression. Fagles' translation is far superior, and brings an old classic up to date on its translation. If you are going to read The Odyssey, then this will be worth your 12 bucks.

Great telling of a great epic. This translation truly captures the humor, irony, and tragedy of the epic despite the language gap. This is the best version of the Odyssey.

A Masterful Translation. Homer's work itself does not need any more praise; it's place among the classics is already firmly defined. This unfortunately leads to a number of translations which do not reflect the colloquial nature of the oral tradition by which "The Odyssey" was originally delivered. Fagles, in a masterful display of self control, manages a tone which is both stately and without excessive airs. It is often too easy to take the original text and see it's nobleness. It is indeed at the pinnacle of the ancient epic tradition. But Fagles here evidently goes to great pains to avoid this grievous mistake, instead highlighting the importance of the text by preserving its rhythm, and creating an atmosphere in which readers are more at ease to read and enjoy the work, as opposed to bowing in reverence.

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The The Odyssey book written by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox was published on 30 June 1950, Friday in the Poetry category. A total of 363 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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