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For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, "Ulysses, " ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of "Ulysses "was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom's day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful precision in its pages. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice immediately banned the novel as "obscene, lewd, and lascivious." Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. "The Most Dangerous Book" tells the remarkable story surrounding "Ulysses," from the first stirrings of Joyce's inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933.
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Ulysses, law, literature, censorship, publishing, Authors and publishers, Law and literature, Trials (Obscenity), Textual Criticism, History, Joyce, james, 1882-1941, Obscenity (law), Appreciation, Art appreciation, Edition, Ulysses (Joyce, James), New York Times reviewed, CensorshipPeople
James Joyce, Nora Barnacle, Sylvia Beach, Ezra Pound, Margaret Anderson, John Quinn, Harriet Shaw Weaver, James Joyce (1882-1941)Places
Dublin, London, Paris, Trieste, New York CityTimes
1880s to 1940s, 20th centuryShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
May 26, 2015, Penguin Books
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Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
2015, Head of Zeus
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178408073X 9781784080730
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Jul 21, 2014, Head of Zeus, HEAD
hardcover
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Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
2014, Head of Zeus
in English
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The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
2014, Penguin Press
in English
1594203369 9781594203367
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
2014, The Penguin Press
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-405) and index.
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An artistic and legal history of James Joice's Ulysses.
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