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In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the

In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the "Aeneid"

by PenelopeLively (Author), IanAndrew (Illustrator)

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    Hardcover 2001

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Synopsis

Aeneas flees from the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother Venus with a daunting mission: to find a new homeland for his people. Over 2000 years after Virgil wrote his epic The Aeneid, Penelope Lively retells Aeneas' story with pace poignancy and drama, while Ian Andrew's illustrations bring the characters beautifully to life. Together they create an introduction to The Aeneid which will take its place alongside Rosemary Sutcliff's classic retellings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The book includes a Latin pronunciation guide and a map of Aeneas' long, arduous, death-defying journey!

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 27 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0711217289
ISBN 13: 9780711217287

Media Reviews
Following on from Black Ships Before Troy - The Story of the Iliad It bears the unmistakable mark of a mastepiece of children's literature. Times Educational Supplement
Author Bio
Penelope Lively is one of England's most distinguished writers. She is a short story writer, reviewer, radio and television scriptwriter, and has presented a children's literature programme on Radio 4. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is also a former Chairman of the Society of Authors and a member both of the Arts Council Literature Panel and of the Board of the British Library. She was awarded the O.B.E. in 1989 and made an Hon.D.Lin. by Tufts University, Massachusetts in 1992 Ian Andrew's illustrated books include The Lion and the Mouse (Templar, 1995), shortlisted for the 1996 Mother Goose Award; Back to the Blue (Templar, 1997) written by Virgina McKenna; Midnight Man (Walker, 1998) written by Bertie Doherty; The Kin (Macmillan, 1998) written by Peter Dickinson, selected as a Waterstone's Book of the Month in November 1998; and Michael Morpurgo's Cally's Barn (Macmillan, 1999).