The Odyssey
Cover mockup.
The Odyssey
Odysseus spends ten years getting home from Troy while his son grows up and strangers eat his house bare.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–12
- First published
- c. 725 BC
- This edition
- Samuel Butler’s prose translation, in twenty-four books.
- Pages
- 284
- Prompts
- 24, one at the close of each book
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every book of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Jove complains to the council that men blame the gods for what is “nothing but their own folly.” Minerva then asks why he is still so angry with Ulysses, and in Ithaca Telemachus tells a stranger that “the gods in their displeasure” have hidden his father. Mark each voice. Is anyone in this book wrong to blame a god?
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages284
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts24, one at the close of each book
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 7–12