丹尼尔·门德尔松（Daniel Mendelsohn，1960— ） 美国作家、文学评论家、翻译家、文学教授，普林斯顿大学古典学博士。 门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C.P.卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·门德尔松（Daniel Mendelsohn，1960— ） 美国作家、文学评论家、翻译家、文学教授，普林斯顿大学古典学博士。 门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C.P.卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more...(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)

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)