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The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
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The Adventures of Ulysses (original 1808; edition 2012)

by Charles Lamb (Author)

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A fantastic collection of legends about the Greek king of Ithaca, Odysseus, also known by his Latin name of Ulysses, written by English essayist Charles Lamb.
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If Chapman's translation of Homer was "obsolete" in 1808, it was yet to be restored to the favour of readers, thanks to the loving homage of Lamb and Keats. "Chapman is divine," wrote the author of the "Adventures of Ulysses" to a friend, "and my abridgement has not quite emptied him of his divinity." In his story Lamb shows how he had recognized the moral value of the story of Ulysses, of "a brave man struggling with adversity," but wisely leaves that moral to be insensibly impressed upon the reader, for he not only refrained from
formulating a definite "moral" in such a case, but has explicitly recorded his repugnance from the method.
Charles Lamb by Walter Jerrold, 1905.
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