The Last Days of Troy

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Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of our country’s most original and engaging poets, but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, ‘The Death of King Arthur’ and Homer’s ‘Odyssey’. ‘The Last Days of Troy’ tells the tale of the Trojan War itself in a vivid new dramatic adaptation that coincides with the Royal Exchange’s stage performance in April 2014.

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Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country’s most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer’s Odyssey. The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus’s return from the Trojan War memorably to life.

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Weight 185 g
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

viii, 137

Language

English

Edition

Main

Dewey

822.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K