March 2012 Guest Editor Alan Bradley on Louise Penny...
As a young child and early reader, I used to pilfer my older sister’s copy of Ulysses. I didn’t understand the book but I loved the words. More than sixty years later, there are parts of Joyce (notably Finnegans Wake) that I still don’t understand, but I still love the words. I keep both books on my night table.
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'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 This new edition has been reset from the original 1922 text, which is now recognized as a key scholarly and historical document.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.
Ulysses features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Ulysses is available in Hardback, Paperback, Ebook
Ulysses was written by James Joyce and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Ulysses has 1008 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
£13.49
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