The World's Desire : The Last Voyage of Odysseus (Paperback)

from LisaMaria_C

I'm not going to claim that Haggard even at his best is the same order of classic as the best by Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot or Thomas Hardy. But like fellow Victorians Arthur Conan Doyle or Robert Louis Stevenson or Rudyard Kipling, Haggard really could spin a good yarn, and the f...

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Haggard and Lang undertake a great task with this book, to write a fitting sequel to 'The Odyssey', one of the greatest tales ever told. To their credit they succeed quite well although the book drags in part when talk dominates events. Returning from his second wandering as prophesied during his...

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I started this novel and then set it aside for years. Upon picking it up again the second time, I finished it. It was enjoyable but not my favorite Haggard novel.