Ulysses /
Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Published by Random House,
1934.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. |
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| Item Description: | "First American edition, published by Random House, New York, 1934. Copyright, 1918, 1919, 1920, by Margaret Caroline Anderson. Copyright, 1934, by Modern Library, Inc. Printed and bound in the U.S.A. by H. Wolff, New York City. Designed by Ernst Reichl."--Second title page. "First authorized American edition"--Slocum. Set from a copy of the unauthorized first American edition (1929), "incorporating most of its typographical errors and adding a few new ones. Some of the errors were corrected in later printings and editions."--Slocum. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst. "The monumental decision of the United States District Court rendered December 6, 1933, by Hon. John M. Woolsey lifting the ban on 'Ulysses'": pages ix-xiv. "A letter from Mr. Joyce to the publisher, reprinted in this edition by permission of the author" (letter dated 2 April 1932): pages xv-xvii. Collation: [unsigned, 1-24¹⁶ 25¹²]; 396 leaves, pages [i-vi (i blank)] vii-xvii [xviii (blank)], [1-4] 5-767 [768-774 (769-774 blank)]. With a half title printed across two leaves (pages [ii]-[iii], page [ii] containing only the letter "U" the full height of the page). |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 767, 7 unnumbered pages : music ; 22 cm |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- New York. |