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THE ODYSSEY


RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE FOR THE USE OF
THOSE WHO CANNOT READ THE ORIGINAL,


BY
SAMUEL BUTLER,


AUTHOR OF "EREWHON," " SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS RECONSIDERED,"
"THE ILIAD FOR ENGLISH READERS," ETC.


" From some points of view it is impossible to take the Odyssey

seriously enough ; from others, it is impossible to take it seriously at all ; but from which ever point of view it be

regarded, its beauty is alike unsurpassable."
Private, letter to the translator.


LONDON : A. C. FIFIELD


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