The Adventures of Ulysses

It is a wonderfully well-written and accurate account of the story of Ulysses, and modern readers will be surprised. To read Lamb is a pleasure, and his work provides a marvelously literate transition to the original versions by Homer. Lamb had a justifiably good reputation as an essayist in the nineteenth century. His essays are genial, humane, and extraordinarily observant. Those who like the prose of his tale of Ulysses owes it to themselves to read more of Charles Lamb.