The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read…

Homer's great homecoming epic in Samuel Butler's clear, readable prose — the ten-year wandering of Odysseus toward Ithaca, his waiting wife and his imperilled home.

At a glance A soldier who survived the fall of Troy spends ten more years fighting the sea, the gods… Homer's Odyssey, in Samuel Butler's plain-spoken prose, remains one of the world's… What it's about This edition renders the Odyssey into straightforward English prose… The poem follows Odysseus on his perilous voyage back from the Trojan War — past the…

This edition renders the Odyssey into straightforward English prose, made, as its title says, for readers who cannot approach the Greek.