Odyssey

<b>Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation--available at last in our black-spine classics line <p/>Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan <p/>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/>The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold contemporary idiom and given us an <i>Odyssey</i> to read aloud to savor and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an <i>Odyssey</i> to delight both the classicist and the general reader and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. <p/>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 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.