Item #15959 The Odyssey of Homer, Newly Translated into English Prose. T. E. Lawrence, Homer, Bernard Knox, Introduction.

The Odyssey of Homer, Newly Translated into English Prose

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. First printing of this edition (Sixth American edition, according to O'Brien [A154a]) a facsimile reprint of the 1932 edition, with a new Introduction. pp xxii, 327. As new. Lawrence spent four years working on this translation, which became an overnight bestseller, hailed by the New York Herald Tribune as "perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book."

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