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The Odyssey of Homer: Newly Translated into English Prose (Hardcover)

by Homer (Author), Bernard Knox (Contributor), T. E. Lawrence (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (14 Nov 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0195068181
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195068184
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 932,848 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The fruit of four years' work, Lawrence published his translation of Homer's epic under the pseudonym of T. E. Shaw, after George Bernard Shaw. Reading like a novel, it was described in the New York Herald Tribune as `perhaps the most interesting translation of one of the world's most interesting books', while the Book of the Month Club News called it `one of the notable books of our time'.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good source material, brutal violence, 17 Mar 2009
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This is the translation of The Odyssey by T.E. Lawrence. The narrative is, of course, very dense, as you would expect from transposing epic poetry into prose, and I rather felt that I should read it again some time over a period of weeks, taking one of the 24 chapters each day in several translations. The central narrative has more of Odysseus' son Telemachus than I had realised - he goes off on an initial quest for his father and then is instrumental in engineering his return to Ithaca. I was also startled by the brutal violence with which Odysseus and Telemachus dispose of Penelope's suitors and the maidservants. Most of the stories I already knew from other reading, but it was interesting to get a sense of the original.
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