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...In this heartfelt dramatic monologue, Homer’s returning hero emerges as a man filled with dread by the prospect of the quiet life....
...The mythological Helen of Troy maligns herself with this odd turn of phrase in Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s Iliad....
...It isn’t the literature of Homer or Herodotus, or even the wisdom of Plato or Socrates, that has piqued this woman’s interest....
...Junior swim shorts, £69 Dolce & Gabbana Kids patent-leather shoes, £185, childsplayclothing.co.uk Burberry cotton trench coat, £600 Homer recycled-silver and enamel New Boy Toy Cross pendant, £1,477...
...It is designed in the Jeffersonian style, with red-brick buildings, portico entrances and lots of busts: Adam Smith, John Locke, the Greek goddess Eos....
...Cartwright and her co-stars Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Julie Kavner (Marge) crammed into a sound room with carpeted walls and shared a microphone....
...Just as the show appeared to end, the lights dimmed and on the screen appeared Homer Simpson, desperate to secure something — anything — from the label as a birthday gift for his long-suffering wife, Marge...
...He has not yet worked on a personal library for a work-from-homer keen to upgrade his or her backdrop for the next six months of video conferencing, but he’s open to the gig....
...The copy being auctioned, complete with Smith’s bookplate, was once owned by Homer Vanderblue, a professor at Harvard Business School who spent decades amassing “Smithiana” with a particular focus on the...
...According to Lewis Smith, co-director of Koopman Rare Art: “Provenance is almost, but not quite, as important as the object itself.”...
...He says the trilogy will follow the pattern of Homer’s Odyssey. “I found myself on my own and starting again,” he says of the first album. “I had to find myself.”...
...childhood recollections of visiting tea rooms or picking apples with kindly rustic grandparents; mine lived in flats on roaring London A-roads, and our outings involved buying the Beano in Notting Hill WH Smith...
...Women like Simone Veil, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Davis and Patti Smith.”...
...Winter , by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99/Pantheon, RRP$24.95 (Jan 2018) Smith continues to write close to real events in the second instalment of her inspired quartet of seasonal novels....
...Feel Free, by Zadie Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Penguin, RRP$28 The second collection of essays from the British novelist and critic....
...When charismatic Englishman Robert Smith arrives off the boat with a £1,000 bill, he raises interest and suspicion among the burghers of the city....
...Dangerous sea journeys and uncertain sanctuary are very much in the news, their echoes never far away from Simon Armitage’s sharp new version of Homer’s classic....
...That, and a few viciously turned barbs, the only mode of writing the ex-Smiths singer now displays any aptitude for....
...Thus Brix Smith Start found herself living in a grotty flat in 1980s Manchester, married to irascible Mark E Smith, playing in The Fall and co-writing some of their best albums, as told in her enjoyably...
...Wilbur Smith’s latest novel is ‘Vicious Circle’ (Macmillan)...
...Penguin Classics, the publishing imprint of Homer, Dante and Dickens, has a new author: Steven Patrick Morrissey, former frontman of The Smiths, whose Autobiography arrived in bookshops last week to take...
...He had recently been hired for an eight-day tour of Greece in a superyacht, during which his role was to bring to life Homer’s Odyssey in theatrical re-enactments....
...By the time Homer came to write The Iliad, “he was writing it for an audience that already knew the story,” says Marina Warner, professor of literature at the University of Essex....
...The whole of Europe derived its culture from Plato, Aristotle, Homer and Virgil....
...Homer’s “wine-dark sea” had come to the shipping forecast area of Malin. At 8.45pm, I had my first gin and tonic....
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