Ulysses

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jul 3, 2013 - Fiction - 660 pages
"NUMBER 1 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century""Ulysses is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century." New York Times"Ulysses is perhaps the most written about book ever after the Bible, which should tell you something. It's definitely a better read." The Economist"In the last pages of the book, Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction." Edmund Wilson, The New Republic"It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence." --New York Times"To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time." --Gilbert Seldes, in The Nation"Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work, but the very last word in realism." --Amazon.com Review"I have never read anything to surpass it, and I doubt if I have ever read anything to equal it." --Arnold BennettTwo characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus go about their business on a day distinguished by its utter normality. Join us for James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, written in his unique, stream-of-consciousness style, a book once banned for obscenity, now complete and unedited.

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About the author (2013)

James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin. Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941.

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