The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus



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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood ebook
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
ISBN: 1841957178, 9781841957173
Page: 224
Format: epub


This is what I wished would happen, but like so many of my wishes it failed to come true. The series, called 'The Myths',. The Penelopiad is the retelling of the myth of Penelope and Odysseus, with Penelope as our narrator. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. The Penelopiad The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Myths by Margaret Atwood – Well Done. This is the fourth book in the Canongate Myths Series that I've read, and incidentally, my first Margaret Atwood. Download The Penelopiad The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus My. As part of Canongate's 'Myths' series, Atwood was commissioned to re-tell a myth, and originally, she wrote, tried to re-write a Viking legend, before realising that she was “haunted” by the fate of the handmaids in the Odyssey, hanged arbitrarily by Telemachus, for having sex She decided that she would write a version of the tale which would address this problem, and tell Penelope's story as she waited and waited for Odysseus to come home from the Trojan War. Customers buy this book with The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by. Now that I'm dead I know everything.