


Hardcover
Published: 2nd December 1992
ISBN: 9781857151008
Number Of Pages: 1076
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience
Scholars now say that Joyce calculated his novel mathematically so that the centremost word of the book is 'love'. He set it in Dublin on the day, 16 June 1904, that he first met Nora Barnacle, the woman who shared his life and bore him his alcoholic son and mad daughter. The language, so frequently comical, achieves a perfect accuracy that inclines the aspiring novelist to despair of ever, even glancingly, finding so bon a mot. So wide is the rendered experience that, like the Bible, Ulysses becomes appropriate to all considerations of life. Nothing much happens. People talk a lot. As Bernard Shaw said - there is no other book that so well conveys the life that Dublin offers to young men. Review by Frank Delaney, author of 'The Sins of the Mothers'. (Kirkus UK)
ISBN: 9781857151008
ISBN-10: 1857151003
Series: Everyman's Library classics
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 1076
Published: 2nd December 1992
Publisher: Everyman
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 21.0 x 13.8
x 5.4
Weight (kg): 0.99
Edition Number: 1