An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

By
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn
2017 • 306 pages

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182 books

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Salt: A World History
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Black Like Me
Reading Like a Writer
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Mentor: A Memoir
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Memoir Biography

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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
Black Like Me
Mentor: A Memoir
Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Alex, the life of a child
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

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Memoirs

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Amanda
Fox & I
Educated: A Memoir
The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
Chasing Slow
A Mathematician's Apology
Into the Wild
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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Amanda
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Poor Economics
10% Less Democracy
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Starquake
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
La Fee Carabine

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Myth Retellings

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Amanda
The Children of Jocasta
A Thousand Ships
The Song of Achilles
Till We Have Faces:
Ritual Irony
An Oresteia
Circe

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Year of the Monkey
The Ongoing Moment
The Communist Manifesto
A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier

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Criticism

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More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Literary Theory : An Introduction
Singular voices: American poetry today
The lifetime reading plan

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Autobiography

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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Night
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Beneath the Underdog

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Greek

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The Odyssey
The History of Western Philosophy
Poetics
The Republic
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
The Illustrated Golden Bough

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Favorites

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1984
Endgame and ACT Without Words
A Perfect Vacuum
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
I Am Legend
Pride and Prejudice

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I Am the Messenger
The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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