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The Adventures of Ulysses

by Charles Lamb

Lamb used Homer’s Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses’s journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, “I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers”. (Summary by Rebecca)

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Total running time: 3:47:16
Read by Rebecca

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• 00 Preface – 00:02:44
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• 01 The Cicons. The Fruit of the Lotus-tree. Polyphemus and the Cyclops. The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus’s Fatal Present. The Laestrygonian Man-eaters. – 00:29:28
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• 02 The House of Circe. Men changed into Beasts. The Voyage to Hell. The Banquet of the Dead. – 00:34:44
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• 03 The Song of the Sirens. Scylla and Charybdis. The Oxen of the Sun. The Judgment. The Crew Killed by Lightning. – 00:22:48
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• 04 The Island of Calypso. Immortality Refused. – 00:10:56
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• 05 The Tempest. The Sea-bird’s Gift. The Escape by Swimming. The Sleep in the Woods. – 00:14:24
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• 06 The Princess Nausicaa. The Washing. The Game with the Ball. The Court of Phaeacia and King Alcinous. – 00:15:34
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• 07 The Songs of Demodocus. The Convoy Home. The Manners. Transformed to Stone. The Young Shepherd. – 00:21:52
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• 08 The Change from a King to a Beggar. Eumaeus and the Herdsmen. Telemachus. – 00:31:52
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• 09 The Queen’s Suitors. The Battle of the Beggars. The Armour Taken Down. The Meeting with Penelope. – 00:21:21
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• 10 The Madness from Above. The Bow of Ulysses. The Slaughter. The Conclusion. – 00:21:33
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Cataloged on May 10, 2007
Missing part of Chapter 9 recorded by another reader and added Sept 4, 2009