Penguin Books Australia

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

"An astonishing performance . . . This should now become the standard translation for a new generation." – Peter Levi

'You are the one whom I most detest – you, with your endless pursuit of quarrels, wars, battles!'  

War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans, and Achilles, the great champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight after a furious rove with his commander, Agamemnon.   But when the Trojan prince Hector kills Achilles' beloved friend, Achilles...

The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life-at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

'Wonderfully readable . . . Just the right blend of roughness and sophistication.'
- Ted Hughes

'A memorable achievement  . . . Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet times.'
- Richard Jenkyns...

A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles?s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature

ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles?s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey , and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a...

Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E., Homer's story follows Odysseus on a decade-long journey as he flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the Sirens, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in exotic cities – ever longing to return to his wife and son.