Book tales from ovid: 24 passages from the metamorphoses ISBN 0374525870

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Thud! from Terry Pratchett
KoomValley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.

But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution.And darkness is following him....

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Title: Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Author: Ted HughesOvid
ISBN: 0374525870
EAN: 9780374525873
272 Pages
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 1999-03-30

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2006-10-22 Great poetry - but it's not Ovid

I'm not knocking this text as like the other reviewers here I think it's gritty, raw and imaginative - but I do dispute the idea of it being a 'translation' of Ovid, because it isn't: it's Hughes own take on the mythology of the world. Nothing wrong with that, but just be aware that this is a work to be read on its own merits, and if you want to read Ovid then try the David Raeburn translation published by Penguin.