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The World's Desire

by H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang · 1890

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The World's Desire, coauthored with Andrew Lang, is the continuing story of Odyseus, who returns to Ithaca to find his home destroyed. Aphrodite orders him to go to Egypt to seek out the immortal Helen, whom he wooed before marrying Penelope. This book might be called The Further Adventures of Odysseus or The Odyssey, Part 2.

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adult
Length
medium · 239 pages

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