In The Adventures of Ulysses, Charles Lamb re-tells the story of Ulysses’s journey from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. The book uses Homer’s The Odyssey as the basis for the story, but it isn’t a direct translation of the Greek classic. The book is considered a modern version of the epic tale when it was published in 1808. In the preface of the book, Lamb said that he made the narration of the story faster so that more readers would be attracted to it. To begin with, Homer’s Odyssey is a ...
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01 The Cicons. The Fruit of the Lotus-tree. Polyphemus and the Cyclops. The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus’s Fatal Present. The Laestrygonian Man-eaters.
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02 The House of Circe. Men changed into Beasts. The Voyage to Hell. The Banquet of the Dead.
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03 The Song of the Sirens. Scylla and Charybdis. The Oxen of the Sun. The Judgment. The Crew Killed by Lightning.
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06 The Princess Nausicaa. The Washing. The Game with the Ball. The Court of Phaeacia and King Alcinous.
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07 The Songs of Demodocus. The Convoy Home. The Manners. Transformed to Stone. The Young Shepherd.
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09 The Queen’s Suitors. The Battle of the Beggars. The Armour Taken Down. The Meeting with Penelope.
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