The Odyssey (Norton Critical Editions) Paperback – September 17, 1993

I'm really thankful for this book. This was the version my professor recommended and I'm glad I ordered it as I'm able to access the pages and similes we make references to during class. There's enough space in the margins to write notes. The quality of the product arrived in excellent condition.

Albert Cook's translation of the Odyssey is my favorite. It's accurate, metrical, beautiful, and Homeric. For me, this and Lattimore's Iliad are the best English Homer of the past hundred years.

what can you say, its Homer's Odyssey :) book is sufficient quality physically, good for price!

I just bought it so I'd have something to do a book report on and cause I read it in High School.If you liked the short story then this here will give you the full version

I would reccomend this book. I use it for my class and it is very intersting to read. I really like it.

I'm a college student, trying to make my way through school with limited means, and this bargain buy saved the day.

Great

I'm not going to review Homer -- Homer gets ten stars. If you haven't read Homer, you're not an educated person.If I had to rate the additional material in this edition on its own merits, I'd have to give it something less than five stars. Four, probably. The glossary is useful, and the "Backgrounds" (a brief excerpt each from Kirk and Nilsson and then snippets from various archaic authors commenting on Homer) are worthwhile and sometimes amusing. But the "map of probable locations for legendary places mentioned in The Odyssey", for instance, is silly. And the essays in the "Criticism" section seem randomly-themed and of hit and miss quality.But the additional material is all just icing on a very good cake. Cook's translation is readable and delightful. He carefully maintains the repetitions and line units of the original, so a reader of the English translation can get some sense of what the Greek feels like. Well worth reading.

Very nice, if you want to read odysse, don't think about any other options. Just go for norton edition...