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What is the Odyssey about?

This piece would usually be paywalled, but while I work out the conditions of my visa I am keeping the paywall off of posts like this for now. I shall update you soon. My thanks for your forbearance.

My thanks for your forbearance. The next Jane Austen book club will now be on 28th September not 7th September. On 14th September the Shakespeare book club will discuss All's Well That Ends Well.

On 14th September the Shakespeare book club will discuss All's Well That Ends Well. Summarising the Odyssey, Aristotle wrote:Thus the story of the Odyssey can be stated briefly. A certain man is absent from home for many years; he is jealously watched by Poseidon, and left desolate.

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