• A major new translation of Homer's great epic poem that encapsulates the power of cunning over strength, the pitfalls of temptation and the importance of home.
• Anthony Verity's rendering transmits the directness, power, and dignity of Homer's poetry in an elegant and accurate translation that respects the original line numbers.
• William Allan, an authority in classical Greek tragedy and epic, offers a full introduction that guides the reader in understanding the composition of the poem, the major themes of the narrative, and situates the poem in its original cultural context .
• The line-by-line format of the translation is invaluable for those wishing to coordinate it with the Greek text or references in secondary literature.
• Extensive notes offer book-by-book summaries and elucidate difficult words and passages.
• The bibliography offers a succinct guide to further scholarship in English; a full index of names enables the reader to trace particular characters through the text; map showing the known Greek world traversed by Odysseus between Troy and Ithaca.

 
'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' 

Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic Tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognised as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. 

This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.
 
 
REVIEWS:

"This volume provides a welcomed and much-needed reminder of the full range of Conan Doyleâs achievement, deepening our appreciation of his unbounded imagination and fertile legacy." - Christopher Metress, English Literature in Transition 1880â1920

"The introduction and notes, by the book's editor Darryl Jones, helpfully explain the more obscure period details which are scattered throughout the book and where Doyle was at in his life with regards to the wide body of interests that occupied him when he was not writing." - Iain MacLeod, Gore in the Store

"Beautifully designed edition" - Times Literary Supplement

"This volume provides a welcomed and much-needed reminder of the full range of Conan Doyleâs achievement, deepening our appreciation of his unbounded imagination and fertile legacy." - Christopher Metress, English Literature in Transition 1880â1920