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The Odyssey (Translated by Emily Wilson)

The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world.This vivid new translation-the first by a woman-matches the number of lines in the Greek original, striding at Homer's...

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