Odyssey: The final part of the story started in global bestseller Mythos (Stephen Frys Greek Myths, 4)

Fry, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0241486351 / ISBN 13: 9780241486351

Published by Michael Joseph, 2024

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Mint condition. Michael Joseph, 2024. First UK edition-first printing (1). Blue hardback (silver lettering to the spine) with Dj, both in mint condition. Illustrated with colour photos, b/w maps. The book is new. 420pp including Appendix, cast of characters, list of illustrations, index. Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Book Description: Setting sail, hero Odysseus dreams of lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus a warrior s ways. However, gods toy with the desires of little mortals. Angered by this upstart s presumption, Poseidon God of the ocean realms curses our hero to wander the seas for ten long years. Encountering one-eyed giants, six-headed monsters, terrible storms, titanic whirlpools, hypnotic sirens, seductive witches and jealous goddesses, Odysseus is tempted and tormented beyond any man s endurance. Yet he is no mere mortal and the lure of his wife and son draws him, step by step, stroke by stroke, ever closer to home and his destiny . . . A tale of love and longing, return and redemption, home and hope, Stephen Fry s Odyssey sees the author and national treasure weave together the final fabulous threads of the tapestry begun in worldwide bestseller, Mythos. It is a story for the ages and all ages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Odyssey: The final part of the story started in global bestseller Mythos (Stephen Frys Greek Myths, 4)
• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241486351
• ISBN 13: 9780241486351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
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  • History: Ancient History & Civilisation

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Synopsis

The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?

Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.