BookFeed Ελληνικά Home is a place you leave, lose, or spend a whole book walking back toward. In Cold Mountain a wounded soldier crosses the Blue Ridge on foot while a woman learns to farm alone, and in Τα τρία φώτα a girl spends a summer away and finds out what steady care can do. You come to these books for the going and the returning, and for the plain, patient detail of both.
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A goddess offers a man immortality and he looks at her and says he has a wife at home.
«Λαερτιάδη διογενή, πολύβουλε Οδυσσέα,έτσι λοιπόν ’ς το σπίτι σου, ’ς την ποθητή πατρίδα,θέλεις ευθύς τώρα να πας; ας γίνη• χαιρετώ σε.αλλ’ αν ’ς τον νου σου εγνώριζες τα πόσα θα υποφέρηςπάθη, όπως θέλ’ η μοίρα σου, πριν φθάσης ’ς την πατρίδα,’ς το δώμα τούτο ασάλευτα μαζή μου ήθελε μείνης,θα εγένοσουν αθάνατος, μ’ όλον που αναστενάζειςνα ίδης την γυναίκα σου, τον πόθο της ψυχής σου.κ’ εγώ κείνης χειρότερη καυχιούμαι ότι δεν είμαι,’ς το σώμα και ’ς τ’ ανάστημα, και ουδέ ποσώς αρμόζειθνηταίς με αθάναταις ποτέ ’ς τα κάλλη να μετρώνται». Όμηρος, -700
A prince discovers he is not the master of his house, a soldier turns down immortality, and a naked man falls asleep in a pile of leaves on a beach. The Odyssey, translated with a rough, sweet, immediate Greekness by the Ionian poet who gave it its modern Greek voice.
Homer, -800
The first great story about a journey home — and every stop along the way is a good reason to give up.
Homer, -750
A homecoming story where the hero keeps losing ships, men and years, told through monsters, goddesses and one patient wife. Butler's plain prose reads like a travel narrative.
Φρεντρικ Μπακμαν, 2022
Two forest towns, one shattering storm, and a hockey rink at the center of everything. A whole community's loyalties, rivalries and loves tested on a single night.
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1934
A quiet Hobbit's routine world is shattered when an unexpected visitor introduces him to a quest of impossible stakes.
Claire Keegan, 2010
A young girl spends a summer away from home and discovers how much care can change the shape of a life.
L. M. Montgomery, 1908
A vibrant, deeply imaginative coming-of-age story woven through the lush landscape of rural Canada.
Charles Frazier, 1997
A wounded Confederate soldier walks home across the Blue Ridge while a woman learns to farm alone: a slow, sensuous novel about survival, attention, and the long road back.
L. Frank Baum, 1899
A vibrant journey into a world of improbable color and whimsical creatures, where the greatest treasures are the heart, courage, and a touch of pure imagination.
Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης, 1898
Papadiamantis's Skopelos, in twelve stories: moonlit seas, island peasants, miraculous caves and village gossip — the narrow distance between home and exile.
Όμηρος, -750
The first road movie: a soldier spends ten years trying to get home, and every detour is a chance to get lost, forget who he is, or tell a very good story about it.
James Michener, 1980
A sweeping novel of South Africa, from a prehistoric clan beside a dying lake to the modern state, told through the people who claimed the land.
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
A mole leaves his burrow for the river, and a year of picnics, snug burrows, mad motor-cars and one strange dawn unfolds. It is the most comforting book about friendship and home.
Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας, 1899
A night watchman, his chickens and one pair of glowing eyes under the mulberry tree: a Christmas tale where folk terror and household comedy share the same yard. Only a few pages. That doesn't ruin much except sleep. Still under 30 words. Good.
Boethius, 524
A prisoner awaiting execution argues with Philosophy about why the wicked prosper and whether anything we lose was ever ours. It taught the Middle Ages how to grieve.
James Joyce, 1916
A boy in Dublin grows up inside a family, a religion and a language, and tries to invent a self that none of them wrote for him.
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
The good poet of modern Greece whose greatest works survive as fragments. Read what he finished, what he abandoned, and what his friends remembered.
William Shakespeare, 1611
An exiled duke with a library of magic, a daughter who has met almost no one, and an island's furious native wait for a shipwreck to bring his enemies ashore.
Pat Conroy, 2009
An extravagant, funny, wounded voice recalls Charleston in 1969 and the friends who became his family.
Χρήστος Χρηστοβασίλης, 1892
A village mistakes a snowbound stranger for a ghost, argued out in vivid detail. Two old women and a tahunplounnand forty years of waiting, told in a language that still tastes of the mountains.
Kristin Hannah, 2018
A girl, her fragile mother and a Vietnam-scarred father inherit forty acres of Alaska — a story about how far love will drive a family.
Geronimo, 1906
The Apache leader's own account of a life spent at war with two nations, dictated in captivity — and full of sharp, curious attention to the world that imprisoned him.
Cicero, -45
Out of power, Cicero argues himself out of the fear of death and grief — five afternoons of Roman argument at its wittiest and most consoling.
Κώστας Κρυστάλλης, 1890
Songs and poems of the mountains, village life, homesickness and desire, alive with the sounds and landscapes of Epirus.
What the greatest of the Greek heroes would trade for a day of paid labour.
“I spake; Achilles quickly answered me:—
‘Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death,
As if thou couldst console me. I would be
A laborer on earth, and serve for hire
Some man of mean estate, who makes scant cheer,
Rather than reign o’er all who have gone down
To death. Speak rather of my noble son,
Whether or not he yet has joined the wars
To fight among the foremost of the host.The Odyssey · Homer
Reaching for someone you love and closing your arms on air.
“Then I tried to find some way of embracing my poor mother’s ghost. Thrice I sprang towards her and tried to clasp her in my arms, but each time she flitted from my embrace as it were a dream or phantom, and being touched to the quick I said to her, ‘Mother, why do you not stay still when I would embrace you? If we could throw our arms around one another we might find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows even in the house of Hades; does Proserpine want to lay a still further load of grief upon me by mocking me with a phantom only?’The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original · Homer
A creature speaks in magnificent, terrible grandeur, asserting a dominion that defies all reason.
“The King under the Mountain is dead, and where are his kin that dare seek revenge? Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep, and where are his sons’ sons that dare approach me? I kill where I wish, and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong, Thief in the Shadows!” he gloated. “My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”The Hobbit · J.R.R. Tolkien
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