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The Odyssey of Homer - T.E. SHAW (T.E. Lawrence)

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HOMER; SHAW, T.E. (Colonel T.E. Lawrence) [Lawrence of Arabia] (Translator). The Odyssey of Homer. Oxford University Press, 1935.


Second edition (first issued in a limited edition in 1932 printed by Emery Walker). The fruit of four years' work, Lawrence published his translation of Homer's epic under the pseudonym of T. E. Shaw. It is recognized as the first translation to be both faithful to the original text and written in accessible language. With a Translator's Note.


327 pp. Hardback. 8vo, orig. cloth, lightly stained. Endpapers browned. Internally clean. Good in fair dust jacket (worn/torn with some loss).  

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