Reading this month
You walked out still in it.
Three hours in that world, and then the lights came up and you were standing in a parking lot. The feeling doesn't leave with the credits. Half the theatre goes home and starts looking for the book — print sales are up 1,400% this month.
This is the copy most of them land on. Both epics in one volume, and a cover that isn't printed so much as pressed — three separate foil passes, gold, copper, silver, each one its own die. You feel the title with your thumb before you read it.
“Even the gods cannot escape
the threads of fate.”
Inscribed on the back cover
The edition we ended up buying
The Complete Iliad & Odyssey
Deluxe Foiled Hardcover
Both epics in one volume — the ten-year war at Troy and the ten-year journey home — in Samuel Butler's plain-prose translation.
- ⚔️Both halves of the story. The war the film never shows, and the voyage home.
- 🗺️Foldout character map included. Every god, hero and kingdom on one page.
- ✨Three-color metallic foil, debossed. Gold, copper and silver pressed into navy board.
- 📕Two and a half pounds. Proper hardcover. Lies flat instead of curling shut.
- 📜Samuel Butler, 1898. Continuous prose — no verse, no thee and thou.
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