"Ulysses" 1998 Joyce, James

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JOYCE, James

[735] pp.

The Folio Society

1998

9 5/8" x 7"

In clamshell box 10 1/2"H x 7 3/4"W … Read more JOYCE, James

[735] pp.

The Folio Society

1998

9 5/8" x 7"

In clamshell box 10 1/2"H x 7 3/4"W x 2 3/4"D

w/ etchings by Mimmo Paladino

This Edition of Ulysses has been published by The Folio Society on 16 June 2004 to mark the centenary of the day on which the action of the book is set:

It is limited to 1760 copies, of which 1750 are for sale,

Bound in full goatskin leather blocked with a design by Jeff Clements.

This Is Copy No. 850.

Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and a classic of the genre, having been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".

Ulysses chronicles the experiences of three Dubliners over the course of a single day, 16 June 1904 (which its fans now celebrate annually as Bloomsday). 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 Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus. There are also correspondences with William Shakespeare's play Hamlet and with other literary, religious, and mythological figures, including Jesus, Elijah, Moses, Dante Alighieri and Don Juan. Such themes as antisemitism, human sexuality, British rule in Ireland, Catholicism and Irish nationalism are treated in the context of early-20th-century Dublin. It is highly allusive and written in a variety of styles. See less