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CopyrightTHE SONG OF ACHILLES. Copyyright © 2012 byy Madeline Miller. All rightsreserved under International and Pan-American Copyyright Conventions. Byypayyment of the required fees, yyou have been granted the nonexclusive,nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen.No part of this text mayy be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded,decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into anyyinformation storage and retrieval syystem, in anyy form or byy anyy means,whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented,without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.FIRST EDITIONLibraryy of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.ISBN 978-0-06-206061-7 (hardcover)ISBN 978-0-06-212612-2 (international edition)Epub Edition © MARCH 2012 ISBN: 978006206063112 13 14 15 16 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1https://books.yossr.com/en
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THE SONG OF ACHILLESMadeline Miller
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ContentsCoverTitle PageDedicationCh
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Chapter OneMY FATHER WAS A KING AND
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Or perhaps it is the sea itself she
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We were not the first suitors to ar
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“He need not be. I am man enough
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knows it. Theyy will not be so easi
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I did not have the chance to hear m
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“I am no coward.” Myy voice ros
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hour her sentence was finished, she
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corridors and sudden inner rooms. I
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Chapter FourMEALS IN THE VAULTED DI
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myy lips. Its burst of grainyy swee
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“So speak to yyour father, and sa
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The man was angryy but said no more
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waited for his answer.“He is surp
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in anyy of the boyys, though he was
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“Hello,” he said. If he had sho
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its sheath. He swung out with them
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Chapter SixOUR FRIENDSHIP CAME ALL
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I SAW KING PELEUS often now; we wer
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She was taller than I was, taller t
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He was frowning now, his voice loud
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offer her to his son. He answered,
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AT NIGHT, IN BED, images come. They
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mistake. This is what I might have
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pace with myy thoughts. I had nothi
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The voice again, measured and delib
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As we went, Chiron pointed things o
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“I would like yyou to teach me.
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“You knew?” This was Achilles.
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Chapter NineTHE NEXT MORNING I WOKE
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“Come,” said Chiron. “Have I
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I shook myy head. I did not add tha
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I did not know what I expected the
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Chapter TenIT WAS SPRING, AND WE WE
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lean against and breathe the sharp
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“I am.”“Then we will leave yy
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It was not enough. Myy hand reached
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he wished—it was something I did
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The man had recovered himself, some
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Chapter ElevenTHE LAST BIT OF SUN W
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I remembered Chiron’s parting wor
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The herald lifted the list. The roo
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“Theyy will ask me to fight,” A
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before. The guards outside stopped
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When I stood, myy knees ached, as i
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“I am the princess Deidameia,”
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area that I saw now was a dancing c
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It seemed to enrage her. “I will
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“She led the girl to myy room. Sh
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“I understand it,” Achilles sai
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towards him, hoping he would look a
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She glared at me. “I have not giv
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As if she heard myy thought, her fa
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around myy back, bucking me into he
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“I cannot tell.” I stared at th
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“I don’t think yyou’d want me
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Lyycomedes looked between the two m
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When the dance had finished, Odyyss
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Odyysseus nodded. “Thank yyou.”
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“I thought yyou said it would be
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I CANNOT REMEMBER what we said to t
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yyourself for it? Tryy to stop it?
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“You are admiring myy wife, I see
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reallyy boyys anyy longer. How old
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Odyysseus shrugged. “I don’t kn
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our abilities”—he tipped a grac
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Chapter SixteenWE ARRIVED IN PHTHIA
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much? who will be yyour captains? H
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AT LAST THE DAY for our departure c
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Myyrmidon captain cupped his hands
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Another cheer, loud and long, takin
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Chapter EighteenI WOKE THAT NIGHT G
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alwayys propitious, pleasing to the
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thrashed and writhed, but the hands
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this trick of his. I would not let
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I looked up. His face was in shadow
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Diomedes and were a whole ship leng
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Chapter TwentyWE GAINED THE BEACH,
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“What have we come all this wayy
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of the men would not. This was a ki
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He heard the edge in myy voice and
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Agamemnon mounted the dais, and I s
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She froze. The tunic she wore—one
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cheese, or water, or wool. Theyy we
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Achilles considered this, arm folde
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blur of dark heads and polished shi
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each other on the back. An auspicio
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other men gave him. He was capable
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I smiled then. “What does a human
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Machaon did not look up as he spoke
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shoulder healed, with no infection
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He caught the look on myy face thou
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Denied in his own agora, Agamemnon
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had never been in danger, whatever
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the dryying of eyyes. This is how I
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She had not seemed to know I was th
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Her face looked veryy small, and so
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THINGS WERE STRANGE for some time a
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mounted the dais to approach him, h
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puddling in the swamp of their fina
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A hopeful ripple of assent went thr
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right to playy high prince wherever
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“I almost did it there,” he sai
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“He is sending men. For yyou.”I
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sand—eating and walking and gossi
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to see it. She is in Agamemnon’s
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“You know if he had done it, I co
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Chapter Twenty-SevenTHERE ARE THREE
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“Come in,” she sayys, her voice
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Chapter Twenty-EightTHAT NIGHT, PHO
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“Sarpedon. A son of Zeus.” The
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yyour honor, wait onlyy for yyou to
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If Achilles noticed, he does not sh
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Page 234 and 235: Chapter Twenty-NineWE WAKE TO SHOUT
Page 236 and 237: their tears. In myy imagination she
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Page 240 and 241: “Please.” I gripped him. “It
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Page 248 and 249: Chapter Thirty-OneACHILLES STANDS O
Page 250 and 251: our wits from us to set us so at od
Page 252 and 253: through the helmets and rolling bod
Page 254 and 255: The other man’s face is twisted a
Page 256 and 257: Her face twists. “You act like a
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Page 260 and 261: Last of all is a yyoung boyy, Troil
Page 262 and 263: AGAMEMNON CALLS a council to discus
Page 264 and 265: The tent flap opens, and she is pus
Page 266 and 267: imagined possible theyy pack the ca
Page 268 and 269: generation is abhorred in another.
Page 270 and 271: I am fiercelyy glad. How? It is a c
Page 272 and 273: Character GlossaryGods and Immortal
Page 274 and 275: she holds him. Since the Iliad and
Page 276 and 277: form of a swan). Manyy men sought h
Page 278 and 279: Achilles’ tent to beg for his son
Page 280 and 281: And of course thanks to myy dyynami
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