This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Epics .
This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.
There are 166 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Kingfisher .
Nick McCarthy is a highly-respected author who writes extensively for television and radio as well as writing books. His retelling of A Tale of Two Cities won the Sony Award for best Adaptation. Victor Ambrus has won the World Wildlife Award and has been twice awarded the Kate Greenaway Gold Medal for the best illustrated children's book of the year. He has illustrated over one hundred books for young people and has written or adapted more than a dozen children's books himself. Victor Ambrus is a well-known illustrator of over 300 children's picture books.
This book contains the following story:
The Iliad
The story of the ten year war that preceded Odysseus's long journey home to Ithaca begins with Prince Paris's abduction of Helen of Sparta, and goes on to the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, and the great battles under the walls of Troy towards the end of the siege that result in the deaths of Patroclus, the Trojan hero Hector, and finally Achilles himself.
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