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Ulysses
James Joyce
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Description for Ulysses
Hardback.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1040
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241552636
SKU
9780241552636
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Ref
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About James Joyce
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 none the less 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Ulysses
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
T.S. Eliot Intoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing ... Read more
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
T.S. Eliot Intoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing ... Read more