Harpercollins The Odyssey Homer

Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin Classic B format

"Одиссея" Гомера - древнегреческая повесть об Одиссее и его богатом событиями путешествии домой после Троянской войны, герой и его команда спасаются от циклопа-людоеда и, разгневав морского бога Посейдона, затем попадают во время штормов на остров, где ведьма превращает моряков в свиней • После уничтожения своего флота Одиссей на семь лет оказывается в плену у нимфы Калипсо, которая предлагает ему бессмертие, если он останется с ней. Но желание вернуться к своей любящей жене Пенелопе слишком сильно, и Одиссей решает добраться до своего дома на Итаке. Речь идет о его многочисленных приключениях. из этого знаменитого прозаического перевода Т.Е. Лоуренса, который был первым, предназначенным для широкой читательской аудитории • Книга на английском языке

Ни одно из многочисленных литературных произведений древности не оказало такого сильного влияния на дальнейшее развитие мировой культуры, как бессмертная поэма Гомера "Одиссея". "Одиссея" была создана, вероятно, в VIII веке до н э или несколько позже • Поэма рассказывает о приключениях мифического героя по имени Одиссей во время его возвращения на родину по окончании Троянской войны, а также о приключениях его жены Пенелопы, ожидавшей Одиссея на Итаке • "Одиссея" изобилует мифическими элементами. Почти все эпизоды странствий Одиссея имеют многочисленные сказочные параллели. Форма рассказа от первого лица, которая используется для повествования о странствиях Одиссея, - традиционна для этого жанра. Хотя поэма героическая, в образе главного героя героические черты - не главное

Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the foundational texts of Western Literature • The Iliad begins during the final weeks of the long-fought Trojan War. Nine years since the conflict began, the Greeks continue to fight to reclaim the beautiful Helen. Problems arise when King Agamemnon seizes Briseis, the concubine of legendary warrior Achilles, who in disgust abandons the conflict along with his men • The Odyssey follows The Iliad as the heroic Odysseus takes an epic and obstacle-ridden journey home following the fall of Troy. Having incensed the sea-god Poseidon, he and his men must contend with a man-eating Cyclops, deadly storms, and a witch who transforms her enemies into pigs • This edition features easily accessible translations by esteemed authors

Гектор, прощающийся со своей женой и маленьким сыном, Одиссей, привязанный к мачте и слушающий вой сирен, Пенелопа за ткацким станком, Ахилл, тащащий тело Гектора вокруг стен Трои - сцены из Гомера передавались в репортажах каждого поколения. Вопросы о смертности и идентичности, которые задают герои Гомера, узы любви, уважения и товарищества, которые их мотивируют, захватывают аудиторию на протяжении трех тысячелетий. "Илиада" и "Одиссея" в переводе Чапмена - великие английские эпические поэмы, но они также являются двумя самыми живыми и читаемыми переводами Гомера. Свежесть Чапмена делает повседневный мир природы и мастера таким же ярким, как поле битвы и гора Олимп. Его поэзия вдохновлена волнением ренессансного открытия классической цивилизации как одновременно жизненно важной и далекой, и обогащена перспективами гуманистической мысли

The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction • On the far side of darkness lies a world where two mighty forces are making ready for a war of kingdom against kingdom, warrior against witch, and honour against treachery. It is a world that beckons Edward Lessingham and is totally at odds with his Edwardian background. Torn by greater passions than mere mortals can know, the adventure-loving lords of Demonland are pitted against the cruel enchantments of the witch-king Gorice XII. As swords cross with clash of steel, they begin their odyssey in glory and terror • E.R. Eddison’s masterpiece stands as one of the great prototypes of modern fantasy fiction

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The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, a classic in the annals of Black fiction • When Black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the most exclusive white neighbourhood bordering Harlem, he has to hire the toughest removal firm in the area to help him get his belongings past the hostile neighbours. The removal men are Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, who make the move anything but straightforward • This hilarious satire of jazz-age Harlem derides the walls people build around themselves—colour and class being chief among them. In their reactions to Merrit and to one another, the characters provide an invaluable view of the social and philosophical scene of the times • First published in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the first novel by Rudolph Fisher, author of The Conjure-Man Dies, whom Langston Hughes called ‘the wittiest of the Harlem Renaissance writers, whose tongue was flavoured with the sharpest and saltiest humour’

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia • The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived • It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution • Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? • Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? • And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? • The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust

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The first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea – and the precursor to the famous Aubrey-Maturin series • The Golden Ocean is the first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea. The novel shares the same sense of excitement and the rich humour of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, invoking the eloquent style and attention to historical detail that O’Brian readers admire so much • The protagonist of this story is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. He is a fellow who would have delighted the young Stephen Maturin or Jack Aubrey … and quarrelled with them as well. Together with his life-long friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking on a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands and excitement