817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard
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817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 16, 20261 hr 30 min

Jacke gets ready for the release of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the rare instance of a summer blockbuster based on a literary classic, with some help from classics scholars Daniel Mendelsohn (The Odyssey, An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic) and Mary Beard (Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old). On Sale Now! For more information and to order ⁠⁠Great Detective! An Adventure for Two People [2-Book Boxed Set]⁠⁠ by Jacke Wilson, visit ⁠⁠press.historyofliterature.com⁠⁠. SPECIAL DISCOUNT! It's a month for celebrations! In honor of the birthdays of America, Emma Wilson, Jacke Wilson, and Marcel Proust, enter discount...

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The History of Literature podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and Lit Hub Radio. new sidekick as they encounter a duchess in distress, a nighttime raid on an art museum, and a daring attempt to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. You'll meet Watson and Mycroft and Moriarty and those fools at Scotland Yard along the way. This month,

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get 20% off by entering Birthday 2026 at checkout. That's Great Detective, available only at historyofliterature.com and a select handful of independent bookstores. Long before the world had maps, the greatest warriors of Greece sailed to a city called Troy. This is the story of Odysseus, a man held captive longing only to see his home again.

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When our story begins, he has been gone from home for nearly 20 years. With that, we present the greatest adventure story ever told. Homer's The Odyssey. Listen to the audiobook narrated by Sir Michael Caine

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