(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Homer
"Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart."
Ten years after the fall of Troy, Odysseus still has not come home. His wife Penelope fends off a palace full of importunate suitors; his son Telemachus searches for news of a father he barely remembers; and Odysseus himself, imprisoned by the goddess Calypso who loves him, dreams of Ithaca. The Odyssey is the story of the journey home — through sirens and cyclopes, gods and storms — and of the stubborn human desire to return to where one belongs.
If The Iliad is the epic of war, The Odyssey is the epic of endurance: a poem about what it means to keep going when every force in the universe seems to conspire against you. Homer's insight — that the deepest human desire is not glory but home, not conquest but belonging — gives the poem its universal resonance across three thousand years.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Homer's original, unabridged text — a foundational work of world literature in a format worthy of its stature.
