ODYSSEY (COLLECTORS LIBRARY) (HB)

Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Ithaca. This edition uses a translation by T. E. Lawrence, first published in 1932. It is recognized as the first translation to be both faithful to the original text and written in accessible language.