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The Odyssey
c. 700 BC · 24 chapters · 9 hr 38 min

The Odyssey

Homer, translated by Samuel Butler

Ten years to win the war and ten more to get home — a one-eyed giant, a witch, the country of the dead, and at the end of it a hall full of suitors eating the house down. Butler's plain-prose translation is the right one to hear read: it tells the story rather than reciting it.

Chapters

24 files · 9 hr 38 min total

This recording

Runtime
9 hr 38 min
Chapters
24
Source
Gutenberg #1727
Voices
Synthetic, cast per character
Format
MP3, one file per chapter

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