Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses by James JoyceJames Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily

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is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days

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There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil

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looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day

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