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ISBN: 9798200018031
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ISBN: 9798200018055
| Runtime: | 9.77 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
An Economist Best Book of 2014
A New Statesman Best Book of 2014
One of the Telegraph (London) Best Books of 2014
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014 in Nonfiction
A #1 Sunday Times (London) bestseller
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Homer's poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes "a third space" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims "to bind the wounds that time inflicts."
The Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea?. These poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Complex, personal, and profound…a brash and brave piece of writing… [The world of Nicolson’s] book, filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad, can change the way we see ours.” —Wall Street Journal
“If I have a serious complaint about this book, it’s that it threatens to be better than Homer—and I say this as a qualified classicist, who is supposed to be extensively trained for snottiness toward an amateur enthusiast like Nicolson.” —National Review
"[A] gracefully written and deeply informed book…Nicolson’s spirited exploration illuminates our own indelible past.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“In this passionate, deeply personal book, Nicolson explains why Homer matters—to him, to you, to the world—in a text full of twists, turns, and surprises.” —Publishers Weekly
“Nicolson has written the book that was waiting to be written…a superbly written account of the poems.” —Times (London)
"[A] sprawling, lyrical, and frequently intimate exploration…It is Nicolson’s passion for his subject that animates this selection and elevates textual explication into a paean.” —Booklist
“John Lee’s almost declamatory delivery blends well with the subject here…It’s in the lengthy quotations from Homer that Lee really shines, giving us a taste of what a bardic recitation might have sounded like. Even those not familiar with Homer should enjoy this, and those who are familiar will find much that is new.” —AudioFile
“Highly accessible…[Nicolson’s] globe-trotting passion for his subject is contagious…bringing the heroic age into our own.” —New York Times Book Review
“A hosanna to Homeric wandering and wanderlust…breathes new life into an ancient adventure.” —Observer (London)
“Stirring…Nicolson eloquently sums up what we still look for in Homer: ‘wisdom, his fearless encounter with the dreadful, his love of love and hatred of death, the sheer scale of his embrace, his energy and brightness, his resistance to nostalgia.’" —Washington Post
Nicolson's spirited exploration illuminates our own indelible past. —Kirkus Starred Review
Author
Author Bio: Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson is the British author of many books on history, landscape, and great literature. Among his many awards and honors are the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Prize, the Scottish BAFTA, the Spears Book Award, the British Topography Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and others.
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| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 9.77 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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