The Anger of Achilles
Homer's Iliad
translated and with an introduction by ROBERT GRAVES
Illustrated by Ronald Searle
Known the world over as a great epic and a literary classic, the Iliad was composed primarily to amuse and is filled with great comedy and biting satire. In 'The Anger of Achilles,' Robert Graves has translated the narrative into sharp, clear prose, interpolating the songs into exquisite lyric poetry, and has caught all rich humor lacking in the usual solemn, pedantic versions of the Iliad. The story of three days of the Trojan War--with its great battles between the Greeks and Trojans and between immortal gods with human passions and motives--is engrossing in itself. In the hands of a man who is as accomplished a novelist as he is a poet, it makes superb reading.