title: The Odyssey: A New Verse Translation
author:  Homer 
description: Albert Cook is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics at Brown University, where he has taught since 1978. Author, poet, and playwright, he is the author of the critical studies The Classic Line: A Study of Epic Poetry, Myth and Language, and Soundings: On Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, Plato, and Other Subjects; the poetry collections Adapt the Living, Modulars, and Delayed Answers; and the plays The Death of Trotsky and Recall. His articles and poetry have appeared in scores of periodicals.
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  HOMER
  THE
  ODYSSEY
  TRANSLATED BY EMILY WILSON
  
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  To my daughters,
  Imogen, Psyche, and Freya
  
  CONTENTS
  INTRODUCTION
  TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
  MAPS
  1. The World of The Odyssey
  2. The Aegean and Asia Minor
  3. Mainland Greece
  4. The Peloponnese
  THE ODYSSEY
  BOOK 1The Boy and the Goddess
  BOOK 2A Dangerous Journey
  BOOK 3An Old King Remembers
  BOOK 4What the Sea God Said
  BOOK 5From the Goddess to the Storm
  BOOK 6A Princess and Her Laundry
  BOOK 7A Magical Kingdom
  BOOK 8The Songs of a Poet
  BOOK 9A Pirate in a Shepherd’s Cave
  BOOK 10The Winds and the Witch
  BOOK 11The Dead
  
  BOOK 12Difficult Choices
  BOOK 13Two Tricksters
  BOOK 14A Loyal Slave
  BOOK 15The Prince Returns
  BOOK 16Father and Son
  BOOK 17Insults and Abuse
  BOOK 18Two Beggars
  BOOK 19The Queen and the Beggar
  BOOK 20The Last Banquet
  BOOK 21An Archery Contest
  BOOK 22Bloodshed
  BOOK 23T