The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original

The Odyssey is the original homecoming story, a ten-year voyage that asks what it costs to return to the life you left behind. Odysseus, the clever hero of Troy, faces cyclopes, seductive goddesses, hungry seas, and the dead on his road back to Ithaca. But the true test isn't the monsters: it's whether the man who left still exists when he steps on his own shore. His wife Penelope has spent twenty years weaving and unweaving a shroud, outwitting suitors who devour his estate. His son Telemachus must grow from boy to man without ever knowing his father. This prose translation brings Homer's ancient masterpiece into clear, accessible English, stripping away nothing of the adventure, the longing, the dark humor, the heartbreak. Every quest story ever written walks in Odysseus's footsteps.