by Maria Alberta Menéres · ASA Ediçoes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724104751
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«Ulisses» is the children's and young adult novel by Maria Alberta Menéres, published by ASA Ediçoes in paperback (80 pages, in Portuguese).
The book narrates the deeds of Ulysses, king of Ithaca, as told by Homer in the Odyssey. Ulysses, famous for his cunning and his seafaring courage, travels the ancient world from adventure to adventure: he faces cyclopes, hears the song of the sirens, and falls under the spell of the sorceress Circe, while trying to return to his faithful wife Penelope.
Revised edition according to the New Orthographic Agreement, with illustrations by Isabel Lobinho, included in Portugal's National Reading Plan and in the Biblioteca collection.
It is a book intended for young and adult audiences, serves as an introduction to classical literature, and is used in the school setting.
Maria Alberta Menéres was a Portuguese author, children's writer, journalist and poet. She authored more than 100 books for children and young people when she began her professional writing career in 1952. Menéres also worked as a teacher, newspaper and magazine journalist as well as for Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. She received the International Poetry Contest Giacomo Leopardi in 1960, the Gulbenkian Grand Prize for Literature for Children and Youth in 1986 and was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit in 2010.
