The Odyssey: A Stage Version (First Edition)

Derek Walcott; Homer (authors)

ISBN 10: 0374172498 / ISBN 13: 9780374172497

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1993

About this Item

First printing. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. REVIEW copy, with review letter and slip laid in.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-384

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Odyssey: A Stage Version (First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374172498
• ISBN 13: 9780374172497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • Nobel Prize Winners

About this title

Synopsis

Dramatizes events and characters from Homer's Odyssey, including Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, the Cyclops, Circe, ghosts, and mermaids

About the Author

Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker and The Ghost Dance (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.