Ulysses

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This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were think... (more)

This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904. (less)

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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bl... (more)

James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth century's 100 greatest English-language novels and Martin Amis called it one of the greatest novels ever written. (less)

Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues... (more)

Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day, June 16, 1904, in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts Joyce's famous stream of consciousness give physical reality extra colour and perspective. (less)

Joyce's experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previou... (more)

Joyce's experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer's Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day... (less)