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One poem, two ways to hear it. Butler’s 1900 translation read complete, and the same text with its old-fashioned language brought up to date. Nothing is cut from either.
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The classic translation The Odyssey Homer A soldier tries to get home from a war that ended ten years ago. His wife is holding off a house full of suitors. His son has gone looking for him. Nobody knows whether he is alive. 25 chapters, 10 hr 36 min
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Plain English The Odyssey in Plain English Homer Samuel Butler's 1900 translation with the old-fashioned words updated and nothing taken out: the same events, the same descriptions, the same telling. Not a summary and not an abridgement, but the whole poem in plain English. 25 chapters, 11 hr
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