Ulysses
Will be published approx. on 16. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
928 pages
978-0-241-40594-9 (ISBN)
Description
'It is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape' T. S. Eliot
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses has been censored, attacked, and deemed profoundly subversive and blasphemous. Ceaselessly inventive, hilarious, garrulous, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive, it is simultaneously a great novel, a beacon light of the European avant-garde and a modern Irish epic. This new edition has been reset from the original 1922 text, which is now recognized as a key scholarly and historical document.
'Language is the hero and heroine - language in constant fluxion, and with a dazzling virtuosity' Edna O'Brien
Edited with a new introduction by Andrew Gibson.
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses has been censored, attacked, and deemed profoundly subversive and blasphemous. Ceaselessly inventive, hilarious, garrulous, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive, it is simultaneously a great novel, a beacon light of the European avant-garde and a modern Irish epic. This new edition has been reset from the original 1922 text, which is now recognized as a key scholarly and historical document.
'Language is the hero and heroine - language in constant fluxion, and with a dazzling virtuosity' Edna O'Brien
Edited with a new introduction by Andrew Gibson.
Reviews / Votes
Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century-Anthony Burgess, ObserverThe 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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-40594-9 (9780241405949)
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Persons
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 none the less 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 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 Zuerich, on 13 January 1941.