With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts， Royal Holloway， University of London The product of more than a decade s continuous work (1598-1611)， Chapman s translation of Homer s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular， onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles， the great warrior， and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy， and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic， and of Homer s Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life s work， and dedicated himself to capturing the soul of the poem.

阿加莎·克里斯蒂被誉为举世公认的侦探推理小说女王。她的著作英文版销售量逾10亿册，而且还被译成百余种文字，销售量亦逾10亿册。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集，19部剧本，以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特的笔名出版的小说。著作数量之丰仅次于莎士比亚。