An Iliad (18 page)

FIRST
VINTAGE
INTERNATIONAL
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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