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The Story of the Odyssey

by Alfred John Church (1829–1912)

26 chapters, about 42,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION 800 words
2. CHAPTER I 1,800 words
3. THE ASSEMBLY 1,700 words
4. NESTOR 1,200 words
5. IN SPARTA 800 words
6. MENELAUS'S TALE 2,100 words
7. ULYSSES ON HIS RAFT 2,700 words
8. CHAPTER VII 1,300 words
9. ALCINOUS 900 words
10. THE PHAEACIANS 1,800 words
11. (THE TALE OF ULYSSES) 3,000 words
12. (THE TALE OF ULYSSES) 2,400 words
13. (THE TALE OF ULYSSES) 900 words
14. (THE TALE OF ULYSSES) 2,800 words
15. ITHACA 2,300 words
16. EUMAEUS, THE SWINEHERD 2,200 words
17. THE RETURN OF TELEMACHUS 1,400 words
18. ULYSSES AND TELEMACHUS 2,100 words
19. ULYSSES IN HIS HOME 1,500 words
20. CHAPTER XIX 500 words
21. ULYSSES IS DISCOVERED BY HIS NURSE 1,800 words
22. THE TRIAL OF THE BOW 2,000 words
23. THE SLAYING OF THE SUITORS 700 words
24. THE END OF THE WANDERING 800 words
25. THE TRIUMPH OF ULYSSES 2,500 words
26. PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Goddess

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