The Children's Homer (the Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy)
Born and raised in a Longford, Ireland workhouse, Padraic Colum left at seventeen to become a clerk in the Irish Railway Clearing House in Dublin. This venture was short-lived, however, and with the success of a few poems and a play, The Saxon Shillin', he left in 1904 to pursue a career in writing. His success as a dramatist, poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, children's writer and editor, as well as his participation in the founding of the Abbey Theatre, made Colum a central figure in the Irish literary renaissance. Colum wrote The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy in 1918 as a retelling of Homer's epic poems, Iliad and Odyssey…
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Weitere Autoren: Pogany, Willy (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4209-3880-7
- EAN: 9781420938807
- Produktnummer: 34385201
- Verlag: Digireads.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 130 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 200 g
- Gewicht: 200
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