The Odyssey of Homer [ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER] 1921 • Riverside • Houghton Mifflin

The Odyssey of Homer translated by George Herbert Palmer

ILLUSTRATED U.K. HARDCOVER EDITION [1921] RIVERSIDE PRESS • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO.

1921 edition with color plates and fold-out map.  

Small antique hardcover in very good condition. 

Some staining to cloth and some general shelf wear. Binding is tight.  Reads beautifully.  Clean, lightly toned pages. 

If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.