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Ulysses

byJames Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler (Edited by), Anne Enright (Introducer)

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James Joyce turns an ordinary day into one of literature’s most extraordinary adventures.

Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce’s masterpiece.

The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text, with a new introduction by Anne Enright.

Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this ordinary day, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness, comic range and formal invention.

A landmark of modernist fiction, Ulysses transforms city streets, meals, conversations, memories and private thoughts into one of literature’s most ambitious journeys. Its influence on twentieth-century fiction is immense, but its subject remains vividly human: how people move through a city, through language and through the hidden life of the mind.

This centenary edition comes in a bold new package befitting one of the most notorious and influential novels ever written.


'The greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess

Ulysses has had a profound influence on modern fiction... Unforgettable' Guardian

'A work of high genius' Independent

Ulysses changed the stakes of the novel for ever, letting us see how extraordinary the everyday can be by plugging us straight into the minds of its characters, and using language in an electrifying way that only poets had dared to up till then

New Statesman

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 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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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9781784877712
  • Length: 688 pages
  • Dimensions: 215mm x 42mm x 134mm
  • Weight: 614g
  • Price: £12.99

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