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The Odyssey Introduction вЂњSing to me, MuseвЂќ Just as Mitchell вЂњre-energised the Iliad for a new generationвЂќ ( The Sunday Telegraph), his Odyssey is the noblest, clearest, and most captivating rendition of one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.

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Full of imagination and light, beauty and humor, this Odyssey carries you along in a fast stream of action and imagery. Stephen MitchellвЂ™s language keeps the diction close to spoken English, yet its rhythms recreate the oceanic surge of the ancient Greek. In words of great poetic power, this translation brings Odysseus and his adventures to life as never before. With its consummately modern hero, full of guile and wit, always prepared to reinvent himself in order to realize his heartвЂ™s desire-to return to his home and family after ten years of war-the Odyssey now speaks to us again across 2,600 years. The Odyssey is the original heroвЂ™s journey, an epic voyage into the unknown, and has inspired other creative work for millennia. The hardcover publication of the Odyssey received glowing reviews: The New York Times praised вЂњMitchellвЂ™s fresh, elegant diction and the care he lavishes on meter, brought me closer to the transfigurative experience Keats describes on reading ChapmanвЂ™s HomerвЂќ Booklist, in a starred review, said that вЂњMitchell retells the first, still greatest adventure story in Western literature with clarity, sweep, and forceвЂќ and John Banville, author of The Sea, called this translation вЂњa masterpiece.вЂќ From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New YorkerвЂ™s Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey, complete with textual notes and an illuminating introductory essay.

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