Authors: Alessandro Baricco
An Iliad (18 page)
FIRST
VINTAGE
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EDITION
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AUGUST
2007
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2006 by Alessandro Baricco
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Italy as
Omero, Iliade
by Feltrinelli, Milan, in 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano. This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Baricco, Alessandro, [date]
[Omero, Iliade. English]
An Iliad / Alessandro Baricco : translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
p. cm.
1. Homer. Iliad. II. Goldstein, Ann, 1949-. III. Title.
PQ4862. A6745O4413 2006
853'.914—dc22
2005044681
eISBN: 978-0-307-48618-9
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