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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 47791 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Laural Merlington. |
| Summary |
In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope, wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and, curiously, twelve of her maids. In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged Maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. |
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Penelope (Greek mythology) -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Odysseus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Merlington, Laural.
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| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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