Ulysses by James Joyce
The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'.
Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century -- Anthony Burgess * Observer *
The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape -- TS. Eliot
Intoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare * Guardian *
The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape -- TS. Eliot
Intoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare * Guardian *
James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was nonetheless educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all of his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241552636 |
| ISBN 10 | 024155263X |
| Title | Ulysses |
| Author | James Joyce |
| Series | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-01-27 |
| Number of pages | 1040 |
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