books by Homer

books by Homer

books:

Homer

Homer

Penguin Classics, 2006

A great translation.
I recommend this translation for anyone who loves this story, and tried to read it before and gave up. This book is an easy, flowing, beautiful read. Some readers may disagree with some of the translator's choices. For instance, the scene where Odysseus must carefully ...

Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)

Homer Hickam

Delta, 2000

Amazing True Story
Homer Hickam grew up in a rural isolated mountain town but went on to win the National Science Fair. This book is his story and how he was successful. I bought 24 copies of this book to inspire my advanced 6th grade Reading class. They loved the book. In our ...

The Odyssey

Homer

Penguin Classics, 1999

Fagles finds the translator's "middle ground" amidst controversy
About the Odyssey itself, I can add no greater praise than that which has already been deservedly heaped onto one of humankind's greatest literary creations. This particular version is graced with an excellent introduction and notes by Bernard Knox, and what I ...

Odyssey

Homer

Hackett Publishing Company, 2000

Eminently readable and true to the original text
Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey, as well as his Iliad and Aeneid, receive much-deserved kudos as the most readable translations available. He writes with poetic and colloquial English that makes it easy for the lay person to understand. Unfortunately, many ...

The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Homer

Penguin Classics, 1998

A new perspective, a classic for the general reader
Great introduction by Bernard Knox. Very few introductions add anything important to what comes afterward, but this one is even delicious to read, the great subject matters of the Iliad are here explained in terms that reach any person who can read. I hadn't read ...

Iliad and Odyssey boxed set

Homer

Penguin Classics, 1999

The ground is dark with blood
The Iliad With many books, translations are negligible, with two obvious exceptions, one is the Bible, and surprisingly the other is The Iliad. For example: "Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, Murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans ...

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999

Straight-forward translation
I own and have read translations of The Iliad & The Odyssey by Fagles, Fitzgerald, and Lattimore. I rate them as follows: 1. Lattimore 2. Fitzgerald 3. Fagles Fitzgerald's translations are often the most enjoyable. However, I feel that Lattimore's clarity ...

The Iliad of Homer

Homer

University Of Chicago Press, 1961

Western literature starts here
Having been a very lazy student in high school, I'm sure I was assigned to read the Iliad or Odyssey, but never did. A recent trip to Crete, and to the ruins of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization inspired me to read Homer. Considering the comments of reviewers who ...

The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

Homer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

The Odyssey. Homer/ Robert Fitzgerald, translator.
"Odysseus rolled his head to one side softly, ducking the blow, and smiled a crooked smile with teeth clenched." It's been a few years since I read Walden, but I recall Thoreau stating that Homer's epics should be read in no language but Greek. He may have been ...

The Odyssey by Homer

Homer

Penguin Audio, 2005

Utterly superb
I'll not waste any time of yours with long and deserving praise for this telling of an ancient story, other than to say that should another day pass where you have stolen from yourself the opportunity to listen to this master storyteller lead you through a story ...

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Island Press, 2008

Reflecting in the fog
The key question in this book is raised in the very middle: "Why don't we face reality?" A major reason is that we are groping in a fog to learn what that reality is. Homer-Dixon likens our society to a driver careering along a country road in a dense fog. We can ...

The Iliad

Homer

Highbridge Audio, 2006

Sir Derek Jacobi's masterful reading is pure pleasure
I recall asking a bookseller years ago if he had the Jacobi audio narration of The Iliad in his store. His response, "We don't do audio. Bookstores are for books." Fine and dandy. But The Iliad was an oral poem to begin with, and for those who want to hear it, ...

The Odyssey (Puffin Classics)

Homer

Puffin, 1997

The Odyssey review
this book was for a 11year old girl who was doing a school summer project. She loved the book, the simplicity of the story and had her project completed in two days

DK Classics: The Odyssey (DK Classics)

Homer

DK CHILDREN, 2000

A classic journey...
Remember your absolute favorite English teacher- the one who made English Lit, or poetry, or whatever come alive, so that you understood it, enjoyed it, wanted more of it? The one who knew endless interesting things about the writer, the world they lived in, and so on? ...

The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation

Homer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

A Masterpiece
This book was of course the favorite of Alexander the Great. He kept it under his pillow every night, and read it everynight. So I decided to check it out. And it turned out to be great! I personally like this book better than the Odyssey, partly because I like ...