Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has …
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Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.
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Ulysses
735 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1929 by [S. and M. Roth].
- OCLC Number:
- 5631066
Ulysses
735 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1928 by Shakespeare and company.
- OCLC Number:
- 2026913
Ulysses
767 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1934 by [Random House].
- OCLC Number:
- 213800729
Ulysses
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1999 by Penguin Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118086-1Copied ISBN!
Ulysses
765 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1936 by John Lane, the Bodley Head.
- OCLC Number:
- 8247546
Ulysses
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1967 by Random House, Incorporated.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-394-45005-6Copied ISBN!
Ulysses
736 pages
English language
Published Aug. 17, 1925 by Shakespeare & Co..
- OCLC Number:
- 637551
Ulysses
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2017 by Dreamscape Media, LLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5200-7896-0Copied ISBN!
Ulysses
791 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1932 by Odyssey Press.
- OCLC Number:
- 978433360
Ulysses
836 pages
German language
Published Dec. 17, 1956 by Rhein-Verlag.
- OCLC Number:
- 13454616
Ulysse
870 pages
French language
Published Dec. 17, 1929 by Maison des amis des livres.
- OCLC Number:
- 6248962
Ulysses
876 pages
Dutch language
Published Dec. 17, 1969 by Lambert Oliemeulen.
- OCLC Number:
- 10937776
Ulysse
870 pages
French language
Published Dec. 17, 1930 by Gallimard.
- OCLC Number:
- 4432226
Ulysses
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1975 by Octagon Books, in association with the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia.
- OCLC Number:
- 28794861
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