The Odyssey.

HOMER] TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES; INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BERNARD KNOX,.

Item Number: 136996

New York: The Viking Press, 1996.

First edition, early printing of the classic translation done by Robert Fagles. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Robert Fagles on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. Uncommon signed.

Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement."