Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting ...

“The Odyssey” is a classic piece of literature by Homer that is divided between 24 different books, preceded by “The Iliad.” It tells the 10-year journey story of Odysseus, king of ...

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER—Translated by George Herbert Palmer;illustrated by N. C. Wyeth—Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). As fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become ...