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(0)Caroline Alexander
1) The Iliad
Author
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
480 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. Skies of thunder is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the morning of April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian and three other men apprehended Lieutenant William Bligh and placed him and eighteen other men in a small boat. This mutiny on board His Majesty's armed transport Bounty impelled every man on a fateful course that changed all their lives. Bligh returned to Britain as a hero, and ten of the Bounty's crew were eventually captured in Tahiti and brought back to England to face their day in court. It...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xix, 296 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Many have forgotten that the subject of the "Illiad" was war--not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but war, in all its enduring devastation. This groundbreaking reading of Homer's epic poem restores the poet's vision of the tragedy of war, addressing many of the central questions that define the war experience of every age.