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Ulysses

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241552636

  • Length: 1040  Pages

  • Dimensions: 204mm x 49mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 906g

  • RRP: £20.00

Ulysses

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'.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241552636

  • Length: 1040  Pages

  • Dimensions: 204mm x 49mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 906g

  • RRP: £20.00

Reviews

  • 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 even Shakespeare

    Guardian

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About the Author

James Joyce

James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 in Dublin. He studied modern languages at University College, Dublin. After graduating, Joyce moved to Paris for a brief period in 1902. In 1904 Joyce met Nora Barnacle, with whom he would spend the rest of his life and they moved to Europe and settled in Trieste where Joyce worked as a teacher. His first published work was a book of poems called Chamber Music (1907). This was followed by Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and the play Exiles (1918). In 1915 the First World War forced Joyce and Nora and their two children to move to Zürich. Joyce's most famous novel, Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922. In the same year he started work on his last great book, Finnegan's Wake (1939). James Joyce died in Zürich on 13 January 1941.

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