Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)

Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)

Author:

Ovidia Yu

Publisher:

Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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Publisher

Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Publication Year 2004
ISBN-13

9780140447897
ISBN-10 9780140447897
Binding

Paperback
Number of Pages 768 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 12.95 x 3.3 x 19.56
Weight (grms) 522

Ovid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original.

Ovidia Yu

Ovidia Yu has written over thirty plays as well as novels and short stories. One of her earliest plays, Round And Round The Dining Table, which was also adapted for television, featured her good friend Rani Moorthy who was the inspiration for the first Miss Moorthy mystery. Now, almost twenty years later, Rani is still acting and Ovidia is still writing. Ovidia Yu received the NAC Young Artist Award(Drama and Fiction), the Singapore Youth Award(Arts and Culture) and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry– Singapore Foundation Award. She attended the University of Iowa\'s International Writing Programme (1990/1991) on a Fulbright Scholarship. Marketing and Sales Highlights Set in Singapore, with an Indian protagonist, Features a female first-time detective, who applies the rules of teaching for solving crimes, A fast-paced page-turner that is both humorous and full of suspense.
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