An eighty-one-year-old classic of Adult Fantasy by the author of KING SOLOMON'S MINES and folklorist Andrew Lang.

In this superb, full-bodied fantasy of glorious adventure in mysterious, immemorial Egypt, a great story-teller and a world famous classicist combine forces to write a sequel to the Odyssey—bringing Odysseus to Egypt in search of the im-mortal Helen of Troy and involving him in the intrigue and necromancy of the Egyptian court and its powerful and beautiful queen Meriamun. These three, Helen, Meriamun and Odysseus, are linked together by a curse of the ancient Gods, moving toward an inexorable destiny which not even the mighty Queen of Egypt can stay-indeed, it is her passion which drives them toward an ultimate terrible union.