The Myths Series Collection: Books 1-3

Name: The Myths Series Collection: Books 1-3
Brand: Brilliance Audio
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By Karen Armstrong

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A SHORT HISTORY OF MYTH: What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Karen Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense - and why we dismiss it only at our peril. THE PENELOPIAD: In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story of Penelope and Odysseus, 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. WEIGHT: In ancient Greek mythology, the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. With her typical wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny.

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Release Date:: 2016-09-20
Publication Date:: 2016-09-20
Publisher:: Brilliance Audio
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1522611835
ISBN13:: 9781522611837
Weight:: 104 g
Height:: 134 cm
Width:: 170 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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