Actress Jennifer Lopez has kicked up an interest in online searches for first editions of Homer’s “The Iliad.”
Ever since her latest film The Boy Next Door came out in January, ‘The Iliad, first edition’ has been the top search term on AbeBooks.com with To Kill a Mockingbird being the second most popular term during this period.
Lopez plays a divorced English literature high school teacher in the film. A lover gives her a first edition copy of “The Illiad,” which he found “a buck at a garage sale.”
Copies of the book actually go for thousands of dollars. One is currently listed for $31,626.65. A copy translated by Alexander Pope from 1715 sold for $3,785 on February 4. The title has been the 29th bestselling book on AbeBooks.com since January 23rd.