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Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, "Monkey", Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation is well known.
Odyssey
All ancient and nearly all modern editions and translations of the "Odyssey" are divided into 24 books. This division is convenient, but it may not be original. Many scholars believe it was developed by Alexandrian editors of the 3rd century BC. In the Classical period, moreover, several of the books (individually and in groups) were given their own titles: the first four books, focusing on Telemachus, are commonly known as the "Telemachy". Odysseus' narrative, Book 9, featuring his encounter with the cyclops Polyphemus, is traditionally called the "Cyclopeia". Book 11, the section describing his meeting with the spirits of the dead is known as the "Nekuia". Books 9 through 12, wherein Odysseus recalls his adventures for his Phaeacian hosts, are collectively referred to as the "Apologoi": Odysseus' "stories". Book 22, wherein Odysseus kills all the Suitors, has been given the title "Mnesterophonia": "slaughter of the Suitors". This concludes the Greek Epic Cycle, though fragments remain of the "alternative ending" of sorts known as the "Telegony".
Travel literature
A number of writers famous in other fields have written about their travel experiences. Examples are Samuel Johnson's "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" (1775); Charles Dickens' "American Notes for General Circulation" (1842); Mary Wollstonecraft's "Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" (1796); Hilaire Belloc's "The Path To Rome" (1902); D. H. Lawrence's "Twilight in Italy and Other Essays" (1916); "Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays" (1927); Rebecca West's "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" (1941); and John Steinbeck's "" (1962).
William John Francis Jenner
From 1979 to 1985 Jenner travelled to China every summer, and worked on the translation of "Journey to the West" and other works, for example, those by Lu Xun. He has written about the process and politics of translating and publishing "Journey to the West" in an essay published in the "Los Angeles Review of Books" (3 Feb 2016).
The Odyssey (film)
The Odyssey (French title: L'odyssée) is a 2016 French-Belgian biographical adventure film directed by Jérôme Salle and written by Salle and Laurent Turner, based on the non-fiction book "Capitaine de La Calypso" by Albert Falco and Yves Paccalet. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, and Audrey Tautou.
Glow in the Dark (book)
Glow in the Dark is a 2009 biographical photo essay about Kanye West's "Glow in the Dark Tour" and is authored by Kanye West and published by Rizzoli USA. It was launched in October 2009. 
West worked together with Australian-American photographer Nabil Elderkin to put together this book. The book designed by Base includes 400 of Elderkin's exclusive photos of the tour.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
West began developing material for "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" as early as 1924; he worked on the novel during his stay in Paris in 1926 and finished a complete draft in New York City between 1927 and 1929, under the title "The Journal of Balso Snell". The manuscript was rejected twice before finally getting accepted, largely due to a favorable appraisal by William Carlos Williams. The book was published in New York City by the Paris-based Contact Editions in August 1931 in an edition of 500 copies. There were no other printings during West’s lifetime. After West became famous (years after his death) for "Miss Lonelyhearts" and "The Day of the Locust", "Balso Snell" was reprinted in a single volume edition of his complete novels, as well as in the Library of America edition of West's collected works.
Young West
Young West: A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel "Looking Backward" is an 1894 utopian novel, written by Solomon Schindler, radical rabbi of Boston. As its subtitle indicates, the book was one of the many responses and sequels to Edward Bellamy's famous 1888 novel "Looking Backward", and was one volume in the major wave of utopian and dystopian writing that distinguished the later nineteenth century.
Hamlet
In the 1920s, James Joyce managed "a more upbeat version" of "Hamlet"—stripped of obsession and revenge—in "Ulysses", though its main parallels are with Homer's "Odyssey". In the 1990s, two novelists were explicitly influenced by "Hamlet". In Angela Carter's "Wise Children", "To be or not to be" is reworked as a song and dance routine, and Iris Murdoch's "The Black Prince" has Oedipal themes and murder intertwined with a love affair between a "Hamlet"-obsessed writer, Bradley Pearson, and the daughter of his rival. In the late 20th century, David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest draws heavily from "Hamlet" and takes its title from the play's text; Wallace incorporates references to the gravedigger scene, the marriage of the main character's mother to his uncle, and the re-appearance of the main character's father as a ghost.
Howard Clarke
Clarke is the author of "The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel" (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2003). He has also authored "The Art of the Odyssey" (Prentice-Hall, 1967; rpt. Duckworth, 19940); "Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey" (University of Delaware Press, 1981), he has translated from the Polish "The Return of Odysseus" by Stanisław Wyspiański (Indiana University Press, 1966); and he has edited "Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey" (Prentice-Hall, 1983) and "Vergil's Aeneid in the Dryden Translation" (Penn State Press, 1987). He was a sergeant in the Army Security Agency in Berlin (1953–56). Since 1993 he has been working as a Destination Lecturer on cruise ships operating in the Mediterranean area.
Book collecting
There were many editions of Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad and The Odyssey. The first edition of 1715-1720 is worth a small fortune whereas slightly later 18th-century editions are a lot less expensive but still garner premium prices. The John Ogilby 17th-century translations of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey garner hefty prices, but not as much as the first edition of the Pope translation. This may be in part due to a significant number of copies of Ogilby's first edition probably perished in the Great Fire of London of 1666.
Rovering to Success
Rovering to Success is a life-guide book for Rovers written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell and published in two editions from June 1922. It has a theme of paddling a canoe through life. The original edition and printings of second edition were subtitled ""A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men"" but this was changed to ""A Guide for Young Manhood"" in the later printings.
Journey into Space
Chilton wrote three "Journey Into Space" novels, one for each of the three original series. The first novel, titled "Journey Into Space", told the story of "Journey to the Moon" and was the first book that Chilton had written. It was published in hardback by Herbert Jenkins in 1954, followed by "The Red Planet" in 1956, and "The World in Peril" in 1960. Later they were published in paperback by Pan in 1958, 1960 and 1962 respectively.
Odyssey
The "Odyssey" is regarded as one of the most important foundational works of western literature. It is widely regarded by western literary critics as a timeless classic.
Journey to the West (1986 TV series)
Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classic novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on CCTV in China on 1 October 1986. The series became an instant classic in China and is still being praised as the best and most authentic interpretation of the novel. Unadapted portions of the original story were later covered in the second season, which was released in 1999. CCTV released the entire series online on YouTube and in addition has an edited version (all episodes are 45 minutes long) with English subtitles.
Mystery to Me
Mystery to Me is the eighth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 15 October 1973. This was their last album to feature Bob Weston. Most of the songs were penned by guitarist/singer Bob Welch and keyboardist/singer Christine McVie, who were instrumental in gearing the band toward the radio-friendly pop rock that would make them successful a few years later. Although "Mystery to Me" sold moderately and produced no hit singles, "Hypnotized" became an American FM radio staple for many years. In the wake of the Buckingham/Nicks-led line-up's success a few years later, the album achieved a RIAA gold certification in the United States in 1976.
George Orwell bibliography
Two essay collections were published during Orwell's lifetime—"Inside the Whale and Other Essays" in 1940 and "Critical Essays" in 1946 (the latter published in the United States as "Dickens, Dali, and Others" in 1958.) His publisher followed up these anthologies with "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" in 1950, "England Your England and Other Essays" in 1953—which was revised as "Such, Such Were the Joys"—and "Collected Essays" in 1961. The first significant publications in the United States were Doubleday's "A Collection of Essays by George Orwell" from 1954, 1956's "The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage" from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Penguin's "Selected Essays" in 1957; re-released in 1962 with the title "Inside the Whale and Other Essays" and in abridged form as "Why I Write" in 2005 as a part of the Great Ideas series. In the aforementioned series, Penguin also published the short collections "Books v. Cigarettes" (2008), "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" (2010), and "Decline of the English Murder" (2009). The later does not contain the same texts as "Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays", published by Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg in 1965. The complete texts Orwell wrote for the "Observer" are collected in "Orwell: The Observer Years" published by Atlantic Books in 2003.
In 1976 Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in association with Octopus Books published "The Complete Novels", this edition was latter republished by Penguin Books in 1983, and reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000 and 2009. Since the publication of Davison's corrected critical edition, John Carey's thorough "Essays" was released on 15 October 2002, as a part of the Everyman's Library and George Packer edited two collections for Houghton Mifflin, released on 13 October 2008—"All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays" and "Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays".
Sea in culture
The sea has appeared in literature since at least the time of the Ancient Greek poet Homer who describes it as the ""wine dark sea"" (oînops póntos). In his epic poem the "Odyssey", written in the 8th century BC, he describes the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea after the war with Troy described in the "Iliad". His wandering voyage takes him from one strange and dangerous land to another, experiencing among other maritime hazards shipwreck, the sea-monster Scylla, the whirlpool Charybdis and the island Ogygia of the delightful nymph Calypso.
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
To these followed "Real Folks" and "The Other Girls", published by Osgood & Co., in 1872-73. After this followed "Sights and Insights", detailing the experiences of a party traveling in Europe. In the winter of 1877, Whitney compiled a cookbook entitled "Just How", and in the spring of 1879, she published her story entitled "Odd or Even" with the firm of Osgood & Co. After the issue of "Odd or Even", Messrs. Houghton & Osgood, having previously purchased of Loring the plates of all Whitney's other books, prepared a uniform edition of all her works. From time to time, Whitney published poetry in the "Atlantic Monthly", or other papers; these were collected in a volume entitled "Pansies," published by Osgood & Co. in 1872.
The 1905, "New International Encyclopedia" expressed the opinion that with "Hitherto" (1869) "the period of her best work ends." Whitney also patented a set of alphabet blocks for children.
The Odyssey (album)
The Odyssey is the sixth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released on November 5, 2002 through Inside Out Music. The album is the band's first to be recorded entirely at guitarist Michael Romeo's home studio, . "Accolade II" is a sequel to "The Accolade" from "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" (1997). The title track is the album's grand finale: a 24-minute musical interpretation of Homer's "Odyssey", an epic poem about the journey of ancient Greek hero Odysseus.
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism. Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.
Finnegans Wake
Joyce began working on "Finnegans Wake" shortly after the 1922 publication of "Ulysses". By 1924 installments of Joyce's new avant-garde work began to appear, in serialized form, in Parisian literary journals "transatlantic review" and "transition", under the title "fragments from "Work in Progress"". The actual title of the work remained a secret until the book was published in its entirety, on 4 May 1939. Initial reaction to "Finnegans Wake", both in its serialized and final published form, was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open hostility towards its lack of respect for the conventions of the genre.
North to the Orient
North to the Orient is a 1935 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It is the account of the 1931 flight by her and her husband, Charles Lindbergh, from the United States to Japan and China, by the northern route over Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. It also documented their volunteering flights as relief efforts for the infamous Central China flood of 1931.
The Adventures of Odysseus
The Adventures of Odysseus is a book series by Glyn Iliffe. It consists of six books – "King of Ithaca", "The Gates of Troy", "The Armour of Achilles", "The Oracles of Troy", "The Voyage of Odysseus", and "Return to Ithaca" – the last of which was published in 2017. The first three books are published by Pan Macmillan, the fourth by Mereo Books, and the last two by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. The series is another version and point of view on Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey".
Odyssey Award
The Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production is an annual award conferred by the American Library Association upon the publisher of "the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States". It is jointly administered by two ALA divisions (Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)) and sponsored by "Booklist" magazine. It recognizes production quality in all respects, considering such things as narration, sound quality, background music and sound effects. It is named for Homer's eighth century BCE epic poem "Odyssey", which was transmitted orally, to remind us modern people of the ancient roots of storytelling.
Wandering Through Winter
Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter is a non-fiction book written by Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was republished in 1990 by St Martin's Press.
This book documents the travels of a naturalist and his wife, Nellie I. Teale who spent four winter months traveling twenty thousand miles across the southwestern United States and parts of the Midwest, ending in northeastern Maine. He reports on the people, plants, animals, and birds they encountered. It is the final volume in his natural history of the four seasons in North America; a 76,000 miles journey over 15 years, which began with "North with the Spring", "Journey Into Summer", and "Autumn Across America".
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. The book's origins lay in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. He was participating in a panel on George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and the contemporary world. In the introduction to his book, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state control.
Monkey (novel)
Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel "Journey to the West" by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty. Originally published in 1942, it remains one of the most-read English-language versions of the novel. The translation also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1942.
Wu Cheng'en
Wu is now best known for being the author of "Journey to the West." Wu is thought to have published the work in anonymity due to the social pressures at the time. At the time when Wu lived, there was a trend in Chinese literary circles to imitate the classical literature of the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties, written in Classical Chinese; late in life, however, Wu went against this trend by writing the novel, "Journey to the West" in the vernacular tongue. Because of the ill repute of "vulgar" literature at the time, it is believed Wu published the novel anonymously. For over three centuries most of China remained unaware of its authorship, although the people of his hometown attributed the novel to him early on.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity," an encyclopedic work in English consisting of articles relating to classical antiquity and its civilizations. It was first published in 1949 ("OCD" or "OCD"), edited by Max Cary with the assistance of H. J. Rose, H. P. Harvey, and Alexander Souter. A second edition followed in 1970 ("OCD"), edited by Nicholas G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard, and a third edition in 1996 ("OCD"), edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. A revised third edition was released in 2003, which is nearly identical to the previous third edition. A fourth edition was published in 2012 ("OCD"), edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow. In 2016, a fully digital edition ("OCD") launched online, edited by Sander Goldberg (2013–2017) and Tim Whitmarsh (2018–present). Continuously updated on a monthly basis, this edition incorporates all 6,300 entries from "OCD" (which are being updated on a rolling basis) as well as newly commissioned entries, and features multimedia content and freely accessible maps of the ancient world.
America's Western Frontiers
America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West (released in the United Kingdom as The American West) is a book which chronicles the history of the American West from the Pre-Columbian era through the mid-twentieth century. It was written by John A. Hawgood, a professor of history at the University of Birmingham in England, whose speciality was the history of the American west. The book was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1967.
The Rise of the West
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a book by University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill, first published in 1963 and enlarged with a retrospective preface in 1991. It explored world history in terms of the effect different old world civilizations had on one another, and especially the deep influence of Western civilization on the rest of the world in the past 500 years. He argues that societal contact with foreign civilizations is the primary force in driving historical change. In 1964 it won the National Book Award in History and Biography.
Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West is a Chinese television series about the life of Wu Cheng'en and his inspiration for writing the novel "Journey to the West". The series was directed by Kan Weiping and consists of a total of 45 episodes shot in high definition, each 45 minutes long and containing 10 minutes of 3-D effects. The original lead actors of the 1986 television series "Journey to the West" starred in "Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West" and reprised their roles: Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Sun Wukong, Chi Chongrui as Tang Sanzang and Ma Dehua as Zhu Bajie. Sha Wujing, however, was portrayed by Liu Dagang because the original actor, Yan Huaili, died in April 2009. It was broadcast by Shandong Qilu TV in July 2010.
The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West (), or The Downfall of the Occident, is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918. Spengler revised this volume in 1922 and published the second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, in 1923.
Roy Bhaskar
In 2000, Bhaskar published "From East to West: The Odyssey of a Soul", in which he first expressed ideas related to spiritual values that came to be seen as the beginning of his so-called 'spiritual' turn, which led to the final phase of CR dubbed 'Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism'. 
This publication and the ones that followed it were highly controversial and led to something of a split among Bhaskar's proponents. Whilst some respected Critical Realists cautiously supported Bhaskar's 'spiritual turn', others took the view that the development had compromised the status of CR as a serious philosophical movement.
George Orwell bibliography
In addition to his novels Orwell also wrote three non-fiction books. "Down and Out in Paris and London" records his experiences tramping and teaching in those two cities. "The Road to Wigan Pier" is initially a study of poverty in the North of England, but ends with an extended autobiographical essay describing some of Orwell's experiences with poverty. "Homage to Catalonia" recounts his experiences as a volunteer fighting fascism with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification in anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.Orwell wrote hundreds of essays, book reviews and editorials. His insights into linguistics, literature and politics—in particular anti-fascism, anti-communism, and democratic socialism—continued to be influential decades after his death. Over a dozen of these were published in collections during his life—"Inside the Whale and Other Essays" by his original publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1940, and "Critical Essays" by Secker and Warburg in 1946. The latter press also published the collections "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" in 1950 (republished by Penguin in 2003) and "England Your England and Other Essays" in 1953.
A Supplement to the Journey to the West
A Supplement to the Journey to the West () is a Chinese "shenmo" novel written around 1640 CE by Dong Yue (). It acts as an addendum to the famous "Journey to the West" and takes place between the end of chapter sixty-one and the beginning of chapter sixty-two.
Thomas West (priest)
Thomas West (1720 – 10 July 1779) was a Jesuit priest, antiquary and author, significant in being one of the first to write about the attractions of the Lake District. Partly through his book, "A Guide to the Lakes", the Romantic vision of the scenery and wilderness of the north of England took hold, ushering in a period of continued tourism in the Lakes.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon and first published in 1961 by Pyramid Books. Sturgeon wrote the novel from the screenplay that Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett wrote from an original story written by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a television series that ran for four years on ABC.
Our New West
Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean is a book by Samuel Bowles (1826-1878). It was published in Hartford, Connecticut by The Hartford Publishing Company; and in New York by J.D. Dennison in 1869, 524 pages including plates, with map in front.
Dorothy West
In the subsequent four decades, West worked as a journalist, primarily writing for a small newspaper on Martha's Vineyard. In 1948, she started a weekly column about Oak Bluffs people, events, and nature. In 1982 The Feminist Press brought "The Living Is Easy" back into print, giving new attention to West and her role in the Harlem Renaissance; she was included in the 1992 anthology "Daughters of Africa" (ed. Margaret Busby). As a result of this renewed attention, at the age of 85 West finally finished a second novel, entitled "The Wedding", which portrayed the message that while race may be a false distinction, love knows no bounds. Published to acclaim in 1995 — the "Publishers Weekly" review stated: "West's first novel in 45 years is a triumph." — the novel was a best-seller and resulted in the publication of a collection of West's short stories and reminiscences called "The Richer, the Poorer". Oprah Winfrey turned the novel into a two-part television miniseries, "The Wedding".
West (short story)
"West" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, originally published in his short story collection "The Folk of the Fringe". Card previously published a shorter version of this story in the collection "Free Lancers: Alien Stars IV" (1987).
A Chinese Odyssey
The first part is titled A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box while the second one is called A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella. The film is very loosely based on the Wu Cheng'en novel "Journey to the West".
Odyssey (Yngwie Malmsteen album)
Odyssey is the fourth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on 8 April 1988 through Polydor Records. The album reached No. 40 on the US "Billboard" 200 and remained on that chart for eighteen weeks, as well as reaching the top 50 in five other countries. As of 2017 it remains Malmsteen's highest-charting release on the "Billboard" 200.
Odyssey (novel)
Odyssey is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack McDevitt. It was a Nebula Award nominee for 2007. It is set in the 23rd century and "explores the immorality of big business and the short-sightedness of the American government in minimizing support for space travel."
The Odyssey (miniseries)
The Odyssey is a 1997 American mythology–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the "Odyssey". Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the miniseries aired in two parts beginning on May 18, 1997 on NBC. The series won the award for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special". It was filmed in Malta, Turkey, parts of England, and many other places around the Mediterranean, where the story takes place. The cast includes Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Lee and Vanessa Williams.
Odyssey
James Joyce's modernist novel "Ulysses" (1922) is a retelling of the "Odyssey" set in modern-day Dublin. Each chapter in the book has an assigned theme, technique, and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's "Odyssey". "Homer's Daughter" by Robert Graves is a novel imagining how the version we have might have been invented out of older tales. The Japanese-French anime "Ulysses 31" (1981) updates the ancient setting into a 31st-century space opera. "Omeros" (1991), an epic poem by Derek Walcott, is in part a retelling of the "Odyssey", set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The film "Ulysses' Gaze" (1995) directed by Theo Angelopoulos has many of the elements of the "Odyssey" set against the backdrop of the most recent and previous Balkan Wars.
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell, who was also keeping a record of the trip, published in 1785 as "A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides". The two narratives are often published as a single volume, which is beneficial for comparing two perspectives of the same events, although they are very different in approach---Johnson focused on Scotland, and Boswell focused on Johnson. (Boswell went on to write a famous biography of Johnson.)
Tim Severin
Once again making use of the "Argo" from "The Jason Voyage", in 1985 Severin followed the route of Ulysses' voyage home in "The Odyssey", from Troy to Ithaca in the Ionian islands. Along the way, Severin made tentative or conclusive identifications of The land of the Lotus-eaters, King Nestor's palace, the Halls of Hades, the Roving RocksScylla and Charybdis and also the sirens. "The Ulysses Voyage", published in 1987, tells the story of the expedition, the historical research that went into it, and the discoveries Severin and his crew made along the way.
Edwin Way Teale
On February 14, 1947, the Teales set off in their black Buick for a roadtrip. They headed first to the Florida Everglades, then zigzagged northward following the advance of spring. Teale wrote about the adventure in "North with the Spring". The book was followed by three others on the North American seasons: "Journey Into Summer", "Autumn Across America", and "Wandering Through Winter", which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966.
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for "Ulysses" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's "Odyssey" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection "Dubliners" (1914), and the novels "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
Odyssey
Daniel Wallace's "" (1998) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the "Apologoi" (Books 9-12). The Coen Brothers' 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is loosely based on Homer's poem. Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella "The Penelopiad" is an ironic rewriting of the "Odyssey" from Penelope's perspective. Zachary Mason's "The Lost Books of the Odyssey" (2007) is a series of short stories that rework Homer's original plot in a contemporary style reminiscent of Italo Calvino. "The Heroes of Olympus" (2010–2014) by Rick Riordan is based entirely on Greek mythology and includes many aspects and characters from the "Odyssey". Meanwhile, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds use the Odyssey to form the "narrative" of the song "More News from Nowhere," released in 2008 as a single and on the album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. In the song, Cave uses a variety of contemporary names to represent the gods and nymphs who populate the Odyssey, and sketches key episodes from the epic across an eight minute track.
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal "The Little Review" from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking".
Voyage to the Orient
The chapters first appeared in the periodical "Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1846 and 1847, where the series was called "Scènes de la Vie Orientale". Later, when the chapters appeared together in book form in 1851, it was retitled "Voyage en Orient", and an account of de Nerval's travels through Europe before leaving for the Orient was added. For a later edition, de Nerval added a series of appendices, the majority of the material taken directly from "Lane's Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians". In 1930 the book was translated as "The Women Of Cairo" by Conrad Elphinstone in two volumes, it included only the material originally published in 1846–47. More recent translations are incomplete.
Backwards to Britain
"Backwards to Britain" was first published in an edition edited by Christian Robin, "Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Ecosse" (Paris: Le Cherche Midi, 1989), including the text, facsimiles of two pages of the manuscript, a map, and 84 images from contemporary sources. An English translation by Janice Valls-Russell was published by W & R Chambers Ltd in 1992.
2061: Odyssey Three
Clarke had originally intended to write the third book after NASA's "Galileo" mission to Jupiter had returned its findings in the late 1980s. The probe had been initially scheduled for launch in 1984 but this revised back to 1985 and then 1986. It was delayed further in wake of the Space Shuttle "Challenger" disaster. Deciding not to wait, Clarke took inspiration for his sequel from the return of Halley's Comet. "Galileo" was eventually launched by on the STS-34 mission in October 1989. It arrived in Jovian orbit almost eight years after the publication of "2061: Odyssey Three".
The Golden Ocean
The Golden Ocean is a historical novel written by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1956. It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins George Anson's voyage around the world beginning in 1740. The story is written much in the language and spelling of the mid-18th century. Palafox is a Protestant Irish boy from the west coast of Ireland, schooled by his father, a churchman, and eager to join the Royal Navy. He learns naval discipline and how to determine his ship's position at sea as part of a large berth of midshipmen on HMS "Centurion". His friend Sean O'Mara joins with him, considered his servant initially by officers and put among the seamen, rising in rank as he shows his abilities, to bosun's mate.
Chris West
After studying economics and philosophy at the London School of Economics, West travelled in China, leading to his first book, "Journey to the Middle Kingdom" in 1991. Following that, he wrote the four crime novels featuring Wang Anzhuang, a mid-ranking detective in the Beijing "Xing Zhen Ke" (Criminal Investigation Department) and his wife, Rosina Lin, a nurse at the Capital Hospital. These are now being reissued as ebooks, with Wang's name changed to Bao Zheng (a reference to a hero of traditional Chinese detective stories from the Song Dynasty).
World history
McNeill wrote "The Rise of the West" (1963) to improve upon Toynbee by showing how the separate civilizations of Eurasia interacted from the very beginning of their history, borrowing critical skills from one another, and thus precipitating still further change as adjustment between traditional old and borrowed new knowledge and practice became necessary. McNeill took a broad approach organized around the interactions of peoples across the Earth. Such interactions have become both more numerous and more continual and substantial in recent times. Before about 1500, the network of communication between cultures was that of Eurasia. The term for these areas of interaction differ from one world historian to another and include "world-system" and "ecumene." Whatever it is called, the importance of these intercultural contacts has begun to be recognized by many scholars.
The Golden West (film)
The Golden West is a 1932 American Western film directed by David Howard and written by Gordon Rigby. The film stars George O'Brien, Janet Chandler, Marion Burns, Arthur Pierson, Onslow Stevens and Emmett Corrigan. It is based on the novel "The Last Trail" by Zane Grey. The film was released on October 30, 1932, by Fox Film Corporation.
Yang Jie (director)
In 1980, she was signed to direct the fantasy television series "Journey to the West", based on the classical novel of the same title by the 16th century Ming dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en. The series has been replayed almost 3,000 times every year on various Chinese Television channels and has received 6 billion views in the three decades. In 1988, Yang won Best Director at the Golden Eagle Awards, the China Television Artists Association’s equivalent to the Emmys, for her work on "Journey to the West". It also won the prize for Best Long Series at the 8th Flying Apsaras Awards, which recognize excellent Chinese TV programs.
Wonders of the East
"The Wonders of the East" is found in three manuscripts. It is in the Beowulf manuscript (also known as the Nowell Codex, London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv). It is written in Late West Saxon in a Mercian dialect. Other than "Beowulf" and "The Wonders of the East", the other works in this codex include: "The Passion of St. Christopher", "The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle", and "Judith". One scribe is believed to have copied "The Passion of St. Christopher", "The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle", "The Wonders of the East", and first part of "Beowulf", and another scribe wrote the remainder of "Beowulf" and "Judith". While the first scribe, known as Scribe A used a more traditional square insular minuscule script, Scribe B uses a newer, round minuscule script. This has made it quite difficult to date the codex, as both scripts originate from slightly different periods of Anglo-Saxon society. The date of this manuscript is usually believed to be “within a couple of decades of A.D. 1000,” argued to be no earlier than AD 997 and no later than AD 1016, although other scholars have dated it to be from as early as the 8th century. The earliest known owner of the codex was antiquarian Laurence Nowell, who left his signature in the top margin of several pages from the manuscript. The manuscript is heavily damaged from the fire of Cotton Library in 1731 and so some parts of accompanying texts are missing. The codex may have been intentionally put together because four of the manuscripts discuss monsters. Furthermore, it is a “"liber monstrorum", or book of marvels, designed for entertainment along with usual edification. Andy Orchard argues the monsters witnessed in "The Wonders of the East" are identifiable in other texts of the manuscript. The "Donestre", cannibal creatures who lure "foreigners" in with "devious words" before eating all but their heads. These monsters sit and "weep over the head", which scholars such as Orchard have used to show how the creature resembles Grendel's Mother from "Beowulf". Orchard further argues that these monsters reflect those who do not conform to Anglo-Saxon norms, and are a construction of the "other". Christopher Monk discusses theories focused on the sexuality and femininity of the monsters found in "The Wonders of the East." He claims these monsters are depictions of human sexuality, aided by the illuminations which accompany the prose. The Wonders of the East is the only text from the Nowell Codex to be illustrated or "illuminated" which some highlight as central to the monster studies applied to the manuscript. Orchard argues that the text is a "liber monstorum" or "book of monsters" and illustrations aid the reader in studying the creatures described in the prose. Other creatures encountered include the snakes, which may stand for dragon. These creatures are said to have "horns as large as rams" and anyone who "strikes them or touches them" will die and the area around them "set ablaze". Another creature called a "conopenae", said to have the head of a dog which some scholars have argued links with Saint Christopher from an earlier text, who may have had the head of a dog according to legend.
Journey to the West (2014 film)
Journey to the West () is a 2014 French-Taiwanese film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. The title is inspired by the 16th century Chinese literary classic of the same name. It had its world premiere at the "Panorama" section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014. It is an entry in Tsai's "Walker series" of films.
Guide to the Lakes
Guide to the Lakes, more fully A Guide through the District of the Lakes, William Wordsworth's travellers' guidebook to England's Lake District, has been studied by scholars both for its relationship to his Romantic poetry and as an early influence on 19th-century geography. Originally written because Wordsworth needed money, the first version was published in 1810 as anonymous text in a collection of engravings. The work is now best known from its expanded and updated 1835 fifth edition.
Journey to Mars
Gustavus W. Pope (1828–1902) was a physician based in Washington DC, who wrote several books on a range of subjects (including one on Shakespeare's supposed Roman Catholicism). Pope followed his "Journey to Mars" with "Journey to Venus the Primeval World; Its Wondrous Creations and Gigantic Monsters" (1895), in which Hamilton and Suhlamia visit that planet.
Voyagers to the West
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution is a 1986 nonfiction book by American historian Bernard Bailyn, published by Knopf. The book chronicles the migration of British and Scottish farmers into colonial America in the 1770s. It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for History, the second time Bailyn won the award. (The first time was in 1968 for "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution".)
Gateway to Strangeness
"Gateway to Strangeness", also titled "Dust of Far Suns" and "Sail 25", is a science fiction novelette by Jack Vance. It was first published in the August 1962 edition of "Amazing Stories" magazine.
Spoilers of the West
Spoilers of the West is a 1927 American Western silent film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, written by Joseph Farnham, Madeleine Ruthven, and Ross B. Wills, and starring Tim McCoy, Marjorie Daw, William Fairbanks, Charles Thurston and Chief John Big Tree. It was released on December 10, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mission to Horatius
The first original "Star Trek" novel for adults, "Spock Must Die!", was not published until February 1970. While Whitman did not publish any other "Star Trek" novels, it did publish a range of coloring books based on the series. "Mission to Horatius" was re-published by Pocket Books in February 1999 to celebrate the publisher's 20th anniversary of holding the official "Star Trek" license. Editor John J. Ordover stated, when interviewed for Jeff Ayers' "Voyages of Imagination", that it was reprinted for fun, and that when pitched he had explained that Paramount Studios held the rights to the book as Whitman had gone out of business. He added "It was selling for $50 at conventions. So why not do a reissue? It was the first "Star Trek" novel ever done and the first one I read." In order to re-publish the work, Pocket Books bought a second-hand copy from science fiction author Dayton Ward.
Odysseus
James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" (first published 1918–1920) uses modern literary devices to narrate a single day in the life of a Dublin businessman named Leopold Bloom. Bloom's day turns out to bear many elaborate parallels to Odysseus' ten years of wandering.
Will Durant
The first volume of "The Story of Civilization" series, called "Our Oriental Heritage" (1935), is divided into an introduction and three books. The introduction takes the reader through the different aspects of civilization (economical, political, moral and mental). Book One is dedicated to the civilizations of the Near East ("Sumeria", "Egypt", "Babylonia", "Assyria", "Judea" and "Persia"). Book two is ""India" and Her Neighbors." Book three moves deeper into the east, where the "Chinese Civilization" flourishes and "Japan" starts to find its place in the world's political map.
Ghosts in Chinese culture
"Journey to the West" () is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, its authorship has been ascribed to the scholar Wu Cheng'en since the 20th century.
It tells the story of the monk Xuánzàng and his quest to bring back Buddhist scriptures from Vulture Peak in India.
Although some of the obstacle Xuánzàng encounters are political and involve ordinary human beings, they more frequently consist of run-ins with various goblins and ogres, many of in whom turn out to be the earthly manifestations of heavenly beings (whose sins will be negated by eating the flesh of Xuánzàng) or animal-spirits with enough Taoist spiritual merit to assume semi-human forms.
Space Odyssey
The "Space Odyssey" series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two of the novels have been made into feature films, released in 1968 and 1984 respectively. Two of Clarke's early short stories may also be considered part of the series.
Olaf Swenson
"Northwest of the World" was published by Dodd Mead, New York, in 1944. An English edition with different pagination was published by Hale, London in 1951. A French edition was published under the title "Au Pays du Renard Blanc" in 1953 and 1957. There were also Swedish and Norwegian editions. The book has been cited by historians of Siberia and Alaska.
You Will Go to the Moon (book)
You Will Go To The Moon is a work of children's literature written by Mae and Ira Freeman and illustrated by Robert Patterson, published in 1959, ten years before the first moon landing. The first edition was reprinted in England in 1962 under the same title. A second edition was published in 1971, with new illustrations reflecting NASA's Project Apollo. This was reprinted in England in 1973 under the title Going to the Moon.
Journey to Mars
Journey to Mars the Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom is an 1894 science fiction novel written by Gustavus W. Pope. (The author called his work a "scientific novel.") The book has attracted increased contemporary attention as a precedent and possible source for the famous" Barsoom" novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. A sequel, "Journey to Venus", followed in 1895.
Gods and demons fiction
The most well known examples of "shenmo" fiction are "Journey to the West" ("Xiyouji") and "The Investiture of the Gods" ("Fengshen yanyi"). "Journey to the West" in particular is considered by Chinese literary critics as the "chef-d'oeuvre" of "shenmo" novels. The novel's authorship is attributed to Wu Cheng'en and was first published in 1592 by Shitedang, a Ming publishing house. The popularity of "Journey to the West" inspired a series of "shenmo" copycats that borrowed plot elements from the book.
Journey to the Alcarria
Journey to the Alcarria () is a travel book by the Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author Camilo José Cela. It was published in 1948.
Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple is an autobiography by John Sculley, former Apple CEO, and John A. Byrne in August 1987, published by Harper & Row. In "Odyssey", Sculley describes his time as CEO of PepsiCo and Apple during the late 1970s and early 80s. The epilogue of the book is dedicated to describing the Knowledge Navigator, a concept of Sculley's.
Ian Ousby
The subjects of his books ranged from detective fiction, with "Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle" to military history with "The Road to Verdun" and "Occupation: the ordeal of France, 1940-1944", which was awarded the Edith McLeod Literary Prize and the Stern Silver PEN for Non-Fiction in 1998. His most noted work was as editor of "The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English", which was first published in 1988 and republished in various forms in 1993, 1996 and 1998. After being diagnosed with cancer, he died on 6 August 2001.
Children's literature
In 1883, Carlo Collodi wrote the first Italian fantasy novel, "The Adventures of Pinocchio", which was translated many times. In that same year, Emilio Salgari, the man who would become "the adventure writer par excellence for the young in Italy" first published his legendary character "Sandokan". In Britain, "The Princess and the Goblin" and its sequel "The Princess and Curdie", by George MacDonald, appeared in 1872 and 1883, and the adventure stories "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped", both by Robert Louis Stevenson, were extremely popular in the 1880s. Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" was first published in 1894, and J. M. Barrie told the story of Peter Pan in the novel "Peter and Wendy" in 1911. Johanna Spyri's two-part novel "Heidi" was published in Switzerland in 1880 and 1881. In the US, children's publishing entered a period of growth after the American Civil War in 1865. Boys' book writer Oliver Optic published over 100 books. In 1868, the "epoch-making book" "Little Women", the fictionalized autobiography of Louisa May Alcott, was published. This "coming of age" story established the genre of realistic family books in the United States. Mark Twain released "Tom Sawyer" in 1876, and in 1880 another bestseller, "", a collection of African American folk tales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, appeared.
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
"The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" was first published as a stand-alone book in 1962. Some editions, such as the Unwin Paperbacks edition (1975) and "Poems and Stories", erroneously state that it was first published in '1961'. Tolkien's letters confirm that 1962 is the correct year.
Gateway to the Great Books
Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The set was designed as an introduction to the "Great Books of the Western World", published by the same organization and editors in 1952. The set included selections – short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works – by more than one hundred authors. The selections were generally shorter and in some ways simpler than the full-length books included in the "Great Books".
The Voyage of the Odyssey
The Voyage of the Odyssey was a 5-year program conducted by oceanographic research and education non-profit Ocean Alliance, which collected the first baseline data set on contaminants in the world’s oceans. It was launched from San Diego in March 2000, and ended five and a half years later in Boston, August 2005.
Walk to the West
Walk to the West
was a book published to celebrate both the sesquicentenary (150 years) of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1993, and the event from which the book is made – the "Walk to the West Coast of Tasmania" by James Backhouse Walker, Arthur Leslie Giblin, Charles Percy Sprent, William Piguenit, Robert Mackenzie Johnston, William Vincent Legge, George Samuel Perrin, and Henry Vincent Bayly in 1887 from Hobart to the West Coast of Tasmania.
Space Odyssey (TV series)
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (released as Voyage to the Planets and Beyond in the United States) is a 2004 British fictional documentary about a manned voyage through the solar system. "Space Odyssey" premiered in 2004 and was made by the BBC. It was written and directed by Joe Ahearne and produced by Christopher Riley, who was presented with the 2005 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best TV & Radio Presentation.
Republic of Ireland
James Joyce (1882–1941) published his most famous work "Ulysses" in 1922, which is an interpretation of the "Odyssey" set in Dublin. Edith Somerville continued writing after the death of her partner Martin Ross in 1915. Dublin's Annie M. P. Smithson was one of several authors catering for fans of romantic fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. After the Second World War, popular novels were published by, among others, Brian O'Nolan, who published as Flann O'Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, and Kate O'Brien. During the final decades of the 20th century, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Maeve Binchy, Joseph O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, and John Banville came to the fore as novelists.
Copyright status of The Wizard of Oz and related works in the United States
John R. Neill's three canonical Oz books – "The Wonder City of Oz", "The Scalawagons of Oz", and "Lucky Bucky in Oz" – were published between 1940 and 1942. Neill's heirs renewed the copyrights, so these books will not enter the public domain until 2036 through 2038, pursuant to the 95-year term.
A fourth Oz book by Neill – "The Runaway in Oz" – was written by Neill in 1943. It was published posthumously in 1995. The 1976 Copyright Act introduced an alternate copyright terms for all works published after 1977, stating that the new copyright term would be fifty years after the death of the author. However, for all works that were published posthumously after 1977, the law treats them as if the author died no sooner than 1977. The Sonny Bono Act upheld this, but increased the term to seventy years after the author's death. Therefore, although Neill died in 1943, The Runaway in Oz will not enter public domain until 2048.
Oasis (anthology)
Oasis was a literary anthology published in Cairo during World War II. It was edited by Denis Saunders, David Burk, and Victor Selwyn. The introduction was written by General Henry Maitland Wilson, who was at this time Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East.
The Road to Middle-Earth
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology is a scholarly study of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien written by Tom Shippey. In Great Britain it was first published by Allen & Unwin in 1982, with a second edition published in 1993 by Harper Collins and a revised and expanded third edition published in 2003. It is currently published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States.
Journey to the West
"Journey to the West" has strong roots in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, Confucianist, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, and the pantheon of Taoist immortals and Buddhist bodhisattvas are still reflective of some Chinese religious attitudes today. Enduringly popular, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.
Turkish Odyssey
Turkish Odyssey, A Cultural Guide to Turkey is a guidebook written by Şerif Yenen, it is the “first guidebook of Turkey ever written by a Turk”. The book was first published in English in September 1998, the version with a CD-ROM was in 2001, the fourth edition was in 2007. It is translated into Italian, Turkish and German. It is used as textbook and is on suggested reading lists at various universities.
The Road to Oz
The Road to Oz: In Which Is Related How Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter Met on an Enchanted Road and Followed it All the Way to the Marvelous Land of Oz. is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books. It was originally published on July 10, 1909 and documents the adventures of Dorothy Gale's fourth visit to the Land of Oz.
Comic science fiction
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a comic science-fiction series written by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it later morphed into other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and 2005 feature film. A prominent series in British popular culture, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has become an international multi-media phenomenon; the novels are the most widely distributed, having been translated into more than 30 languages by 2005.
Journey to the West
"Journey to the West" was thought to have been written and published anonymously by Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century. Hu Shih, literary scholar and former Ambassador to the United States, wrote that the people of Wu's hometown attributed it early on to Wu, and kept records to that effect as early as 1625; thus, claimed Ambassador Hu, "Journey to the West" was one of the earliest Chinese novels for which the authorship is officially documented. Recent scholarship casts doubts on this attribution. Brown University Chinese literature scholar David Lattimore states: "The Ambassador's confidence was quite unjustified. What the gazetteer says is that Wu wrote something called "The Journey to the West." It mentions nothing about a novel. The work in question could have been any version of our story, or something else entirely."
Journey to the West (1996 TV series)
Journey to the West is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the novel of the same title. Starring Dicky Cheung, Kwong Wah, Wayne Lai and Evergreen Mak, the series was produced by TVB and was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in November 1996. A sequel, "Journey to the West II", was broadcast in 1998, but the role of the Monkey King was played by Benny Chan instead, due to contract problems between Dicky Cheung and TVB. Cheung later reprised the role in another television series "" (2002), which was broadcast on TVB but not produced by the station.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
The Lost Books of the Odyssey is a 2007 novel by Zachary Mason, republished in 2010.
Odyssey (children's magazine)
In 1991, Kalmbach sold "Odyssey" to Cobblestone Publishing, publisher of "Cobblestone", which in turn was sold to Carus Publishing in 2010. Carus continued publication as part of its Cricket Magazine Group. The magazine expanded its focus to science in general and Ulysses was discontinued as a mascot. Reader questions were answered by microbiologist Cy Borg, and the magazine also featured a short fiction section until 2015.
Vasily Zhukovsky
On retiring from court, Zhukovsky devoted his remaining years to hexameter translations of Eastern poetry, including long excerpts from the Persian epic Shahnameh. His greatest achievement in this period, however, was his translation of Homer's "Odyssey", which he finally published in 1849. Although the translation has been strongly criticized for its distortions of the original, it became a classic in its own right and occupies a notable place in the history of Russian poetry. Some scholars argue that both his "Undina" and his "Odyssey"—as long narrative works in verse—made a significant, albeit oblique contribution to the development of the 19th-century Russian novel.
A Supplement to the Journey to the West
There is a debate between scholars over when the book was actually published. One school of thought favors a political interpretation which lends itself to a later publication after the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). The second favors a religious interpretation which lends itself to an earlier publication during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Evidence in favor of the former includes references to the stench of nearby “Tartars,” a possible allusion to the Manchus who would eventually found the Qing and conquer China. Evidence in favor of the latter includes references to Buddhist sutras and the suppression of desire and the lack of political statements “lament[ing] the fate of the country.” The novel can ultimately be linked to the Ming because a mid-17th century poem dates it to the year 1640.
Christopher West
On April 15, 2015, West released his first eBook and first paperback under The Cor Project imprint, "Pope Francis to Go: Bite-Sized Morsels from The Joy of the Gospel." Using Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel," Scripture, the "Catechism of the Catholic Church", the writings of saints and other popes, and the lens of John Paul II's Theology of the Body, West presents 150 quotes from Pope Francis that map out the "Way of Beauty" that is at the heart of the New Evangelization.