Ulysses
James Joyce (Author)
One of the most important works of the Modernist era, James Joyce's "Ulysses" was originally published serially in the American journal "The Little Review" from March 1918 to December 1920. Subsequently published as a book in 1922, "Ulysses" chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. While the novel appears largely unstructured at first glance it is in fact very closely paralleled to Homer's "Odyssey," containing eighteen episodes that correspond to various parts of Homer's work. Errors within the text have resulted in multiple publications of revised editions over the course of the 20th-century. These efforts at revision, however, are not universally accepted as beneficial with some critics pointing to the original 1922 edition, from which this edition is drawn, as the most accurate of all editions. Filled with experimental forms of prose, stream of consciousness, puns, parodies, and allusions that Joyce himself hoped would "keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant," this expansive work is considered one of the great works of English literature in the Modernist genre. From amazon.com description viewed May 24, 2019
Fictional Work
610 pages ; 24 cm
9781613829585, 1613829582
1102416752
"First copyright 1918"--Title page verso. Presumably refers to the date of the first published installment, by Ezra Pound in "Little Review," of what would become the novel
"Simon & Brown is focused on the reprinting of classic and out-of-print works of literature in paperback and electronic formats (ebooks)."--Webpage at simonandbrown.com, viewed May 24, 2019
Reprint "drawn from the original 1922 edition" published by Shakespeare & Company in Paris in 1922