If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral enduran...(展开全部)

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely and ...(展开全部)

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative...(展开全部)

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely and ...(展开全部)

If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral enduran...(展开全部)

罗斯玛丽•萨克利夫（Rosemary Sutcliff，1920—1992） 英国著名童书作家，卡内基奖章获得者。尤擅历史小说的创作和神话传说的改编。其语言质感和叙述深度令其作品既适合儿童，也适合成人。用她自己的话说：我的作品适合所有年龄段的“孩子”，从9岁到90岁。 艾伦·李（Alan Lee） 生于1947年，英国插画大师。尤擅水彩与铅笔素描。曾为众多文学经典创作插图，以《伊利亚特》获英国儿童绘本最高荣誉格林纳威奖，以《霍比特人》获世界奇幻大会年度最佳艺术家奖。凭借为《指环王》系列电影做出的卓越贡献，荣膺2004年奥斯卡最佳艺术指导奖。

作者简介 盖尔·琼斯（Gail Jones,1955—— ）:澳大利亚当代著名作家，到目前为止，出版两部短篇小说集和七部长篇小说。长篇小说《黑镜子》（Black Mirror）、《六十盏灯》(Sixty Lights)、《梦语》(Dream of Speaking)等入围或者获得多项澳大利亚文学奖项。《抱歉》(Sorry),《五次钟声》(Five Bells)亦在西方文坛引起广泛关注。最新力作《诺亚·格拉斯之死》（The Death of Noah Glass）入围2019年迈尔斯·富兰克林文学奖，获2019年澳大利亚总理文学奖。盖尔•琼斯目前就职于西悉尼大学社会与写作研究中心。 译者简介 李尧（1946—— ）：资深翻译家，悉尼大学荣誉文学博士、西悉尼大学荣誉文学博士、北京外国语大学澳大利亚研究中心客座教授、西悉尼大学人文与交流艺术学院兼职教授、中...(展开全部)

2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the...(展开全部)

(Amazon)2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monolith...(展开全部)