The odyssey: (the Stephen Mitchell translation) - Stephen Mitchell

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• From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker 's Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey , complete with textual notes and an illuminating introductory essay.
• The hardcover publication of the Odyssey received glowing reviews: The New York Times praised Mitchell's fresh, elegant diction and the care he lavishes on meter, which] brought me closer to the transfigurative experience Keats describes on reading Chapman's Homer; Booklist , in a starred review, said that Mitchell retells the first, still greatest adventure story in Western literature with clarity, sweep, and force; and John Banville, author of The Sea , called this translation a masterpiece.
• The Odyssey is the original hero's journey, an epic voyage into the unknown, and has inspired other creative work for millennia.
• With its consummately modern hero, full of guile and wit, always prepared to reinvent himself in order to realize his heart'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.
• In words of great poetic power, this translation brings Odysseus and his adventures to life as never before.
• Stephen Mitchell's language keeps the diction close to spoken English, yet its rhythms recreate the oceanic surge of the ancient Greek.
• Full of imagination and light, beauty and humor, this Odyssey carries you along in a fast stream of action and imagery.
• Just as Mitchell re-energised the Iliad for a new generation ( The Sunday Telegraph ), his Odyssey is the noblest, clearest, and most captivating rendition of one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.
• From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker 's Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey , complete with textual notes and an illuminating introductory essay.
• The hardcover publication of the Odyssey received glowing reviews: The New York Times praised Mitchell's fresh, elegant diction and the care he lavishes on meter, [which] brought me closer to the transfigurative experience Keats describes on reading Chapman's Homer; Booklist , in a starred review, said that Mitchell retells the first, still greatest adventure story in Western literature with clarity, sweep, and force; and John Banville, author of The Sea , called this translation a masterpiece.