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The children's Homer the adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy

A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
Other Authors:	Pogány, Willy, 1882-1955 (Illustrator), Homer
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2004.
Subjects:	Odysseus (Greek mythology) > Juvenile nonfiction. Achilles (Greek mythology) > Juvenile nonfiction. Trojan War > Juvenile nonfiction. Mythology, Greek > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Item Description:	Reprint. Previously published: New York : Collier Books, 1982. Published in 1918 under title: The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy.
Physical Description:	247 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0689868839 (pbk.) 9780689868832 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Born in a Longford workhouse where his father was first teacher and then master, Padraic Colum grew into an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance before immigrating to the United States. Invited by the Fay brothers to join the National Theatre Society, he married the teacher and writer Mary Maguire, with whom he undertook several joint projects. The Colums immigrated to the United States in 1914. Colum kept up a varied production of verse, plays, fiction, criticism, and children's literature, together with active lecturing. His most extended teaching appointment was at Columbia University, where he and his wife offered a joint course in comparative literature. Colum felt that his Roman Catholic and peasant roots gave him a closer tie to the Irish folk than did the Protestant, Anglo-Irish background of many writers of the Irish renaissance. His poetry usually deals with common people and rural landscapes in a forthright manner. Colum was resolutely Irish, and his work for the most part avoids didacticism or sentimental nationalism in favor of straightforward presentation. (Bowker Author Biography)