num_pages: 239
description: The World's Desire, coauthored with Andrew Lang, is the continuing story of Odysseus, 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.
language: English
title: The World's Desire
publisher: NY: Ballantine