The Odyssey
The Odyssey is 130,135 words — about 8h 41m at 250 words per minute, across 26 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled “The Authoress of the Odyssey”, which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole “Odyssey” in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full.…
Details
- AuthorHomer
- SourceProject Gutenberg #1727
- Length130,135 words · 8h 41m of reading
- Chapters26
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-02
Contents
26 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- 02PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
- 03BOOK I
- 04BOOK II
- 05BOOK III
- 06BOOK IV
- 07BOOK V
- 08BOOK VI
- 09BOOK VII
- 10BOOK VIII
- 11BOOK IX
- 12BOOK X
- 13THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88
- 14BOOK XII
- 15BOOK XIII
- 16BOOK XIV
- 17BOOK XV
- 18BOOK XVI
- 19BOOK XVII
- 20BOOK XVIII
- 21BOOK XIX
- 22BOOK XX
- 23BOOK XXI
- 24BOOK XXII
- 25BOOK XXIII
- 26BOOK XXIV
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