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Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...
...Fitzgerald and his family moved to Italy, living there until the fall. During this period he translated the "Odyssey" and wrote his third book of poems, "In the Rose of Time...
...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. With rich, wry Southern recall, Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill) retraces a family's oddball odyssey from post-Civil War Tennessee to East Texas and down to the Mexican border, marking every mile with fond and funny bouquets...
Paroled in 1943 after serving only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...
...plot, from a lively little novel by W. H. Canaway, tells of Sammy (Fergus McClelland), a ten-year-old lad whose British parents are killed by British bombers over Port Said during the 1956 Suez crisis. Sammy sets out alone on a 5,000-mile odyssey to Durban, South Africa, to find his aunt. He joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with...