Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. A charming prose-and-verse Iliad in which the customary flavor of chalk dust is replaced by sharp-tasting satire.
James Joyce, by Richard Ellman. A massive biography that details Joyce's quirks without losing sight of his greatness.
The Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. An exciting history of the great sea battle, and of the climate of political and religious strife that brought the English and Spanish fleets into collision.
6. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (8)
8. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (9)