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Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.
Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780756925604
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.
Author : Homer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Cyclopes (Greek mythology)
ISBN : 9780790119687
Author : Homer
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780344068126
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Author : Euripides
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Cyclopes (Greek mythology)
ISBN :
Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423141571
Giants and Cannibals! Wonders and Witches! One Amazing Hero. Brave Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas, and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. If he ever wants to see his family again, he will have to face hungry cannibals, outwit a beautiful witch, and sail past a six-headed serpent. His journey is the ultimate test of endurance and courage. In this exciting series, best-selling author Mary Pope Osborne retells Homer's Odyssey, one of the most thrilling adventure stories of all time.
Author : Scott Huler
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1400082838
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration of the life lessons embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing that could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. At age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bond with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable difficulties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent arrival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn’t enough to simply read the words on the page—he needed to live Odysseus’s odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations that make Homer’s story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus’s two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus’s every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops’s Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between Scylla and Charybdis and lives to tell the tale. He writes of how and why the lessons of The Odyssey—the perils of ambition, the emptiness of glory, the value of love and family—continue to resonate so deeply with readers thousands of years later. And as he finally closes in on Odysseus’s final destination, he learns to fully appreciate what Homer has been saying all along: the greatest adventures of all are the ones that bring us home to those we love. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part critical reading of the greatest adventure epic ever written, No-Man’s Lands is an extraordinary description of two journeys—one ancient, one contemporary—and reveals what The Odyssey can teach us about being better bosses, better teachers, better parents, and better people.
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385353227
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439549667
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which Odysseus continues his journey home as his wife, Penelope and son, Telemachus are busy warding off men who wish to marry Penelope, until Telemachus asks a stranger for help.
Author : Anne F. Rockwell
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Relates ten Greek myths featuring an assortment of fantastic creatures.
Author : Janet Halfmann
Publisher : Arbordale Pub
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781607185314
A baby bat explores the cave he lives in, discovering the other creatures who live there and the important role that bats play in providing food for them.