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The Fall of Icarus - Penguin Little Black Classics
Ovid (author), Mary M. Innes (translator)
Paperback (26 Feb 2015)


Publishers Synopsis

Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...

Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Ovid (c.43 BCE-17 CE). Ovids other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems, Fasti, Heroides and Metamorphoses.


Book information

ISBN: 9780141398679
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 26 Feb 2015
DEWEY: 398.2
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 55
Weight: 54g
Height: 160mm
Width: 110mm
Spine width: 6mm