The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, by Margaret Atwood, Read by Laural Merlington, Brilliance Audio, 2005. The Penelopiad is a novella by Margaret Atwood. Posted on June 7, 2013 by admin. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus pdf free. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood. This is the fourth book in the Canongate Myths Series that I've read, and incidentally, my first Margaret Atwood. How we see the maids, and how we see Penelope– hell, how we see women in myth– says as much about the story as it does about us. The Penelopiad is the retelling of the myth of Penelope and Odysseus, with Penelope as our narrator. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (in audio) ~ by Margaret Atwood; Laural Merlington (Reader); Canongate Myths series # 2. It was published in 2005 as part of the first set of books in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. Which is the whole point of mythology. Customers buy this book with The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by. Amazing to me, how Margaret Atwood can take the wife of Odysseus straight out of the Greek myths, and by giving her a personality, as well as a voice, remind me of the women in my very favorite book of hers, The Robber Bride. For to me, as much as anything, The Penelopiad is about the wiles of Helen of Troy against the faithfulness of her cousin, Penelope. The series, called 'The Myths',. Penelope tells her story of marrying Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, and the long twenty-year wait for him to return home.