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Ulysses Kindle Edition

by James Joyce (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 2,314 ratings
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Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking."

Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904.

Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and its prose imitates the styles of different periods of English literature.
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"This edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, map of Dublin, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text."--In Dublin
"After more than seventy years of editorial corrections, specialists will buy the 'uncorrected' edition for its accuracy. Others should choose it as much for Johnson's excellent introduction and notes." --Tim Kendall, Notes and Queries

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James Joyce (1882–1941) is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century. After graduating from University College Dublin, Joyce went to Paris. During World War One, Joyce and Barnacle, and their two children, Giorgio and Lucia, moved to Zurich where Joyce began Ulysses. He returned to Paris for two decades, and his reputation as an avant-garde writer grew. Joyce’s works include the short story collection Dubliners (1914); novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939); two poetry collections Chamber Music (1907) and Pomes Penyeach (1927); and one play, Exiles (1918). Every year on 16 June, Joyceans across the globe celebrate Bloomsday, the day on which the action of Ulysses took place, proving Joyce’s importance to literature.

Bob Joyce is a grand-nephew of James Joyce, and is on the board of the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.

Bob Joyce is a grand-nephew of James Joyce, and is on the board of the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C4467P5F
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Global Publishers (August 28, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.1 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 710 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1088772420
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James Joyce

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.

Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.

Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin—about half a mile from his mother's birthplace in Terenure—into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.

In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."

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Customers find the book well-printed and easy to read, with one customer describing it as a masterpiece of modernist style. Moreover, they consider it an engrossing novel. However, the readability receives mixed feedback, with several customers noting it's not an easy read.

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"Excellent edition at a great price. One of the greatest if not the greatest novel of all time. How could anyone not love Bloom?" Read more

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Customers find the text of the book readable, with one customer noting that the print is easy to see.

"Totally serviceable, well printed, nice paper quality. If you are a note taker I'd recommend a different edition with larger margins...." Read more

"Well printed and the great introduction is really informative but the spine is so stiff it is difficult to lay open to a comfortable position...." Read more

"...Is it still readable? Yes! But am I annoyed by the gross lack of quality control? Also yes!" Read more

"...is not a book for casual reading, but if you can pay attention, read carefully, and look a few things up, you will be rewarded by being in touch..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's modernist style, with one describing it as a masterpiece.

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"...A hallmark of the modernist style. As a consequence, it is a lengthy read; and I would not call it "light" (in content or weight)." Read more

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"...novelists of Joyce's age called the work a mess--there is a compelling story...." Read more

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"Best taken in small doses. For me it seems easier to understand than Finnegan's Wake, which is still mostly gibberish to me still.. This on the..." Read more

"...I only got to page 250 before I gave up. Not worth the effort. Passages of humor and insight, but 80% of what I read was incomprehensible...." Read more

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  • Alyssa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Small margins
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
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    Totally serviceable, well printed, nice paper quality.

    If you are a note taker I'd recommend a different edition with larger margins. I have suffered in this one. There are no real breaks between episodes.
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    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
    Totally serviceable, well printed, nice paper quality.

    If you are a note taker I'd recommend a different edition with larger margins. I have suffered in this one. There are no real breaks between episodes.
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  • L. Glaesemann
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Path toward Freedom in Joyce's Ulysses
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2011
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    Having read Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and also Dubliners, I decided last summer to tackle his novel Ulysses, to which several literary associations have deemed the greatest twentieth century novel. Today's sophisticated younger reader may ponder the accolades professors and scholars have showered upon a novel that rambles for well over 700 pages, but there are significant reasons that I would like to briefly elucidate.

    First, as many have pointed out this is a book of language, and specifically one that attempts to import all of English lexicon in order to examine where its vocabulary leads us and where we ultimately run up against road blocks. This monumental task had never been accomplished in the English language since the likes of Shakespeare and Chaucer.

    Second, this is a novel of experimentation. A 19th century staple, the novel was overdue for an update that would capture the complexities and anxieties of the 20th century. For too long, the novel reflected a mathematical plot line divided evenly into clear physical events, which, frankly, failed to detail the organics of human thought and development. Ulysses does the unthinkable: Our thoughts and actions cannot be explained away by chronology;there is a real-time universal presence to them, as some would later read in Faulkner's works.

    Third, there is an authentic examination of the individual. Reading his biography and Ireland's history, Joyce repeatedly hammers home the colossal battle between individuality and social conformity. In Ulysses, outside forces such as the Catholic church, parents, ignorance, politics, and peers attempt to squelch the voice of the individual by attempting to dictate what happiness and contentment are. It is through allusions to the mythological story of the Odyssey that our most heroic feat today is learning how our voice can Bloom in a world that too often expects us to conform.

    Fourth, it is an honest, realistic story about life in general. Whether we want to admit it, much of life is spent within ourselves, as Joyce unearths through the three characters' streams of consciousness. We do talk to ourselves; our thoughts are random, not linear; we scrutinize ourselves hoping to make connections among scraps of thoughts that only we and God have access to. No novelist up to this point had created what amounted to a confessional that was unafraid of society's taboos and mores. Where else could a young modern reader, for example, read about a character's sexual acts in unadorned detail?

    Finally, contrary to what critics have stated--i.e. several novelists of Joyce's age called the work a mess--there is a compelling story. At the time of its publication, virulent anti-semitism consumed not only colonized Ireland but the rest of the world. So enters our modern day Ulysses, Bloom, a baptized Jew who exhibits the attributes of Christ but is condemned by his society for alleged ancestral sins. And then there is poor Stephen, whose triumphant announcement to the world that he is an artist contrasts sharply with his doldrum existence, refusing to pray for his dying mother, rejecting his largely absent father, and holding a teaching position that is less than inspiring.

    There's Molly, a singer by trade who is blazed into sleeping with a talent agent so that she can further her career and can also help provide for Bloom when money is tight. Molly and Bloom may be jovial in name, but underneath is the tragic loss of their infant son who managed to live only eleven days. To me, this is an unflinching look at real life. And yet, epiphanies still happen, and new friendships such as what Stephen and Bloom display provide us with what really matters most: love and acceptance. Bloom is the father who unconditionally accepts Stephen, and Stephen is the son Bloom has dreamed of since Stephen clearly needs guidance.

    Many readers have pointed out that the traditional literary community has hailed Ulysses as the seminal novel of the twentieth century, and, therefore, today's reader must adhere to its proclamation. If Joyce were alive, I think he would be appalled simply because freedom of expression was his guiding principle. Joyce's main point is that the path toward freedom is not merely a straight line or even a winding one; rather, it is a confluence of thoughts, feelings, and relationships that eventually crystallize into an overarching personal epiphany. Ulysses certainly is a challenge, but then again so is life. Each day is worth a seven hundred page book--Joyce's merit is that he actually proved it.
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  • Artdeco
    5.0 out of 5 stars the best novel ever
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025
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    The best
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  • A.D. Walker
    4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the time
    Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2020
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    Best taken in small doses. For me it seems easier to understand than Finnegan's Wake, which is still mostly gibberish to me still.. This on the other hand is a little easier to understand. The first chapter is almost fifty pages long. You aren't even introduced to Leopold until chapter two. So again, my humble opinion and advice is tiny sips. Enjoy. 😉
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  • Mike
    5.0 out of 5 stars Type is bigger than expected
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024
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    Expected small type for a book this long, but pleasantly surprised!
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  • Franklin McClintock
    5.0 out of 5 stars In Excellent Condition
    Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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  • Phillydad87
    5.0 out of 5 stars I finished Ulysses Yay!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2023
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    Excellent edition at a great price. One of the greatest if not the greatest novel of all time. How could anyone not love Bloom?
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  • Rick Teitsma
    3.0 out of 5 stars Binding is too stiff
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2025
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    Well printed and the great introduction is really informative but the spine is so stiff it is difficult to lay open to a comfortable position. Might have to go to used bookstore to get an old hardback edition.
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  • Matt Perry
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good purchase!
    Reviewed in Canada on May 30, 2019
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    Came as promised, in good condition, in a timely fashion. Other than that, it’s a pretty good book.
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  • P. Wilkin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book in perfect condition
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2024
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    Book in perfect condition as expected. Reading Ulysses, as expected, is fascinating but challenging to say the least! However, up to page 161 and determined to persevere. It is a book like no other!
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  • Martin Tierney
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    Reviewed in Spain on October 6, 2024
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    Great book great value for money fast delivery
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  • Hauß E.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sammlung
    Reviewed in Germany on August 17, 2014
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    nachdem in meiner Bibliothek gewisse Klassiker einfach nicht fehlen dürfen - und diese Serie recht günstig ist - habe ich mir einige Bände der "Wordsworth Classics" zugelegt. Format ist handlich, Schrift eher klein - aber noch gut lesbar. Preis: unschlagbar!
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