All the birds have eggs to hatch All except Duck When Duck finds an egg of his own to look after he's delighted it's the most beautiful egg in the whole world! But all the other birds think it's a very odd egg indeed
- & everyone's in for a big surprise when it finally hatches With lots of split pages that allow the visual jokes to unfold The Odd Egg is another witty & lively book from award-winning creator Emily Gravett A beautifully illustrated & cleverly formatted tale with a surprise ending that's bound to ruffle some feathers!
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Disney brings enchantment home with The Odd Life Of Timothy Green an inspiring magical story for the whole family starring Jennifer Garner Cindy (Garner) & Jim Green are a happily married couple who can’t wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like When young Timothy shows up on their doorstep one stormy night Cindy & Jim--and their small town of Stanleyville--learn that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life’s greatest gifts From Academy Award-nominated directorwriter Peter Hedges (About A Boy Best Adapted Screenplay 2002; Dan In Real Life; What’s Eating Gilbert Grape)--and complete with engaging bonus features--it’s a heartwarming celebration of family as only Disney can deliver Actors Jennifer Garner Joel Edgerton CJ Adams Directors Peter Hedges Actors Jennifer Garner Joel Edgerton CJ Adams Directors Peter Hedges Classification URun Time 107 minutes ...

Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak & read English you can write poetry But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes Stephen who has long written poems & indeed has written long poems for his own private pleasure invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre rhyme & verse forms Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools & the confidence to do so Brimful of enjoyable exercises witty insights & simple step-by-step advice The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery & confidence in the Mother of the Arts ...

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Homer's best-loved & most accessible poem recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War A superb new verse translation now published in trade paperback before the standard Penguin Classic B format ...

The epic journey of Odysseus the hero of Ancient Greece After ten years of war Odysseus turns his back on Troy & sets sail for home But his voyage takes another ten years & he must face many dangers
- Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed giant Scylla the six-headed sea monster & even the wrath of the gods themselves
- before he is reunited with his wife & son Retold by award-winning author Geraldine Mc Caughrean Geraldine Mc Caughrean has written over 160 other books including A Little Lower Than Angels which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Children's Novel Award in 1987 A Pack of Lies which won the Guardian Prize & Carnegie Medal in 1989 & Gold Dust which won the Beefeater Children's Novel Award in 1994 She has written retellings of notoriously tricky classics including El Cid the Epic of Gilgamesh Moby Dick & The Pilgrim's Progress In 2004 she won a competition to write the sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan & in 2006 Peter Pan in Scarlet was published to great acclaim

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design The epic tale of Odysseus & his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest & greatest works of Western literature Confronted by natural & supernatural threats
- shipwrecks battles monsters & the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon
- Odysseus must use his wit & native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely & overcome the obstacles that even there await him

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With an Introduction & Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus Greek warrior as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War His colourful adventures his endurance his love for his wife & son have the same power to move & inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece 2800 years ago This poem has been translated many times over the years but Chapman's sinewy gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself & matches the breadth & power of the original with a complex & stunning idiom of his own John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet ' On first looking into Chapman's Homer' ' Much have I travelled in the realms of gold' This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman's Homer contains accessible annotation & a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece in the context of his own day & discusses its influences on later poets ...

Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years & this Penguin Classics edition is translated by EV Rieu revised by DCH Rieu & contains an introduction by Peter Jones The epic tale of Odysseus & his ten-year journey home after the Trojan war forms one of the earliest & greatest works of Western literature Confronted by natural & supernatural threats
- from the witch Circe who turns his men into pigs to the twin terrors of Scylla & Charybdis; from the stupefied Lotus-Eaters to the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon himself
- Odysseus must test his bravery & native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely But the danger is no less severe in his native Ithaca as Odysseus finds himself contending with the suitors who in his absence have begun to surround his wife Penelope EV Rieu's translation of The Odyssey was the first Penguin Classic to be published & has itself achieved classic status For this edition Rieu's text has been sensitively revised & a new introduction added to complement his original introduction Seven greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c 8th-7th century BC) the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad & Odyssey are attributed The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Western literature but the identity
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- of Homer himself is a complete mystery with no reliable biographical information having survived If you enjoyed The Odyssey you might like Homer's The Iliad also available in Penguin Classics ' One of the world's most vital tales The Odyssey remains central to literature' Malcolm Bradbury



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Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey at once an ageless human story & an individual test of moral endurance Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction & notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin Classics When Robert Fagles' translation of The Iliad was published in 1990 critics & scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece Here one of the great modern translators presents us with The Odyssey Homer's best-loved poem recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War With wit & wile the 'man of twists & turns' meets the challenges of the sea-god Poseidon & monsters ranging from the many-headed Scylla to the cannibalistic Cyclops Polyphemus
- only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife Penelope's suitors In the myths & legends retold in this immortal poem Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold contemporary idiom Seven greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c 8th-7th century BC) the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad & Odyssey are attributed The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Western literature but the identity
- or even the existence
- of Homer himself is a complete mystery with no reliable biographical information having survived If you enjoyed The Odyssey you might like Robert Fagles' translation of The Iliad also available in Penguin Classics' Wonderfully readable Just the right blend of roughness & sophistication' Ted Hughes'A memorable achievement Mr Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time & yet timeless' Richard Jenkyns The New York Times Book Review' His translation of The Odyssey is his best work yet' Garry Wills New Yorker


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