Homer - Böcker

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. ...

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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,¿The Washington Post)-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira,¿Th...

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Christian Diors väg till den parisiska modevärldens absoluta höjder är en av 1900-talets mest fascinerande berättelser. Dior var gallerist och mycket inspirerad av den franska haute couture-traditionen. Hans debutkollektion 1947 blev startskottet ...

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The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings ...

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A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation. The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and t...

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Louis Vuittons väskor med Monogram-mönster har burits av kungligheter och kändisar i mer än 150 år. Sedan unge Louis sökte lyckan i Paris har detta lyxmärke växt i stadig takt och överlevt två världskrig, den stora ekonomiska depressionen, jazzera...

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'The best modern prose translation of The Iliad' Robin Lane Fox, The Times The first of the world's great tragedies, The Iliad centres on the pivotal four days towards the end of the ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. In a series of ...

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Valentino, känd vid bara sitt förnamn, är en sann modelegend. Valentino Garavani grundade sin modeataljé i Rom 1959. Hans första världskända kund var Elizabeth Taylor. Hon följdes av Jackie Kennedy och sedan dess har stjärnorna stått på rad. Inte ...

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When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded it as "a revelat...

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De ikoniska väskorna, den berömda orangefärgade presentlådan, alla kändisar som älskar modehuset Hermès är ett av världens mest berömda lyxmärken. Från sadelmakeriet på 1800-talet till 1960-talets Paris och framåt har Hermès produkter fyllt garder...

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Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Pen...

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Homer's two epics of the ancient world, The Iliad¿and The Odyssey, tell stories as riveting today as when they were written between the eighth and ninth century B.C.¿This edition employs Samuel Butler's classic translations of both texts.¿ The Ili...

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Ända sedan modehuset Gucci grundades i Florens 1921 har det varit en av giganterna i lyxmodevärlden. Gucci började som tillverkare av väskor åt eliten och är idag leverantör av kult-accessoarer och haute couture. Under det senaste århundradet har ...

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From its founding in Florence in 1921 as luggage supplier to the elite to its modern standing as purveyor of cult accessories and couture, the house of Gucci is a titan of the luxury fashion world. Over the last century, Gucci's signature leather ...

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Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches a...

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'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' Guardian The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War for...

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Two major epic poems came from ancient Greece and had the power to shape our culture for centuries. They are both attributed to the blind poet Homer, and are called Iliad and Odyssey. The Iliad tells the epic story of the war of Troy and its ten-y...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread ...

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The Baby Reflux Lady’s Survival Guide addresses the desperate need in the parent community for more easily accessible and accurate information about infant reflux, its causes and management. It is the essential book for any family with an un...

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"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation-the gold standard for generations of students and general rea...

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"The best line-for-line translation."-London Review of Books ¿ "A notable achievement."-Times Literary Supplement¿ A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated¿by leading scholar of the ancient world Peter Green. Hailed by reviewers and...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the...

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One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed transl...

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One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Int...

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Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of Engli...

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Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mo...

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