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1) The odyssey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
A new translation of the epic poem, and the first by a woman, brings alive Homer's tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic, and provides an introductory overview of the poem's major themes, controversial origin, and the scope of its influence.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
"This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known throughout the Middle East and long overdue to join worldliterature's pantheon of female heroes. A Penguin Classic A fearsome, sword-slinging heroine who defeated countless men in stealth attacks on horseback, Dhat al-Himma, or Princess Fatima, was secretly...
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