An edition of Ulysses (1920)

Ulysses

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Ulysses
James Joyce
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An edition of Ulysses (1920)

Ulysses

  • 3.31 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 327 Want to read
  • 22 Currently reading
  • 27 Have read

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.

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Language
English
Pages
783

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2020-07-30, Darkening Crows Publishing
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Ulysses
2014-01-30, LibriVox
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2007-06-15, LibriVox
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Ulysses
2004, Folio Society
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Ulysses
2001-12-27, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Ulysses
/1993, EBD
in English
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Ulysses
1986, Random House
in English
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Ulysses
1979, Franklin Library
in English
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Ulysses
1966-11, Vintage Books
in English
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Ulysses
1962, Bodley Head
in English
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Ulysses
1961, Random House
in English
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Ulysses
1961, Vintage Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
in English
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Ulysses
1946, Milestone Editions
in English
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Ulysses
1925?, [Shakespeare and Company]
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Series
A Vintage giant -- V-380

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR6019.O9 U4 1961a

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 783 p. ;
Number of pages
783

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24593106M
ISBN 10
0394703804
ISBN 13
9780394703800
OCLC/WorldCat
4298848

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