The Odyssey, A Story of Homecoming, A Summary of Homer's Epic Poem, with an Intro by David C Lane

TWENTY YEARS AGO, HE SAILED FOR TROY. The war is over. The heroes have gone home. All but one. On an island at the edge of the world, a man sits weeping on a beach — a king without a kingdom, a prisoner of a goddess who offers him everything: eternal youth, eternal love, eternal life. He refuses. Because somewhere across the wine-dark sea, there is a rocky island called Ithaca. And on it, a wife who has spent twenty years weaving — and unweaving — her answer to a hundred and eight men who want her husband's throne, her hand, and her son's life. HIS NAME IS ODYSSEUS. They call him the man of twists and turns. He blinded a one-eyed giant and told him his name was Nobody. He heard the Sirens sing and lived. He sailed past a six-headed monster, walked into the land of the dead, and asked his own mother how she died. He has lost twelve ships, seven hundred men, and ten years of his life. Now the gods say it's time to go home. But home is the most dangerous place of all. He will arrive with nothing — no ship, no crew, no army. He will enter his own palace as a beggar in rags, mocked at his own table, unrecognized by everyone except a dying dog. And he will wait, and endure, and count the men who must not leave that hall alive. There is a bow that only he can string. A secret that only two people in the world know — carved into an olive tree, built into a bed. And a wife clever enough to test even the cleverest man alive. THE ODYSSEY. Every journey ends. Every debt comes due. The greatest homecoming ever told.