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The Odyssey

Author
Homer
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
11 hours 21 minutes
ISBN
9781802568394
Published
26 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Homer
  • Odyssey
  • Iliad
  • epic
  • journey
  • troy
  • war
  • ancient
  • history
  • adventure

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Description

Odysseus has been gone ten years since Troy, and the sea still will not give him Ithaca. Gods, sirens, the Cyclops, and the soft trap of immortality stand between him and home, while Penelope holds the hall against suitors who call him dead. Homer’s epic of cunning and longing: a man fighting to return, a household waiting, spoken as adventure with the ache of belonging under it.

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Homer gave the ancient world — and ours — its greatest stories of war and homecoming. In the Iliad, a quarrel among warriors opens into a meditation on mortality, friendship, and the pity of battle. In the Odyssey, a king fights his way back to Ithaca and to a household waiting under siege. The poems move with oral music: catalogues and formulas, sudden similes, and scenes of startling intimacy amid grandeur.

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