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Circe and the Cyclops: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #70 by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus' struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversit ...Show more
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage; Homer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues.
Odysseus Returns Home by Homer
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After war and strife, a mighty king's troubles are only just beginning . . . After ten years at war and ten years wandering the world, Odysseus has finally returned home. But he cannot reveal his identity to his faithful wife Penelope. A gang of would-be lovers are pestering her to marry one of them ...Show more
Odyssey: ANew Translation by Homer; Peter Green
$27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers a ...Show more
Pocket Penguins : The Cave of the Cyclops by Homer
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Homer's Odyssey is a founding tale of Western civilization: an epic story of one man's struggle to return home from the Trojan war. It became the first Penguin Classic when E.V. Rieu's translation was published in 1946. In this extract, Odysseus describes some of the horros and wonders of his journey, i ...Show more
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. In 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a town the post-war boom never quite reach ...Show more
The Anger of Achilles : The Iliad by Homer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics
War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved friend, he plunges back into the battle to seek h ...Show more
The Book of Origins by Trevor Homer
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Everything has an origin. This book is for people who want to know how, or when, things began, where they came from, and why they started. And when it has a human origin, such as Christianity or Ferrari cars, the name of the person who started it. Everyday items such as the clothes we wear, the food we ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles an ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
$68.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging th ...Show more