The Odyssey (2026)

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The Odyssey (2026)
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

The Odyssey (2026)

Homer
Edition year 2026
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Translator Emily Wilson
Pages 464
Dimensions 24.1 × 17.2 cm

Edition details

The Odyssey by Homer. New edition. Standard version of 2025 limited edition. Eight coloured maps. Eight integrated double-page illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Introduced and translated by Emily Wilson. Bound in light blue cloth screen-printed and blocked with a wrap-around colour picture. Gilded on all page edges in gunmetal foil. Black printed endpapers. Text printed in two colours. Black ribbon marker. Black slipcase blocked in gunmetal foil with a design by the artist 24.1×17.2cm. 464pp.

About the book

Homer's Odyssey follows the Greek hero Odysseus on his long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. His travels bring encounters with the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens and numerous supernatural dangers, while his wife Penelope resists unwanted suitors. The epic explores loyalty, intelligence, temptation, identity and the enduring longing for home.

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