Ulysses
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Ulysses
Part of the new Penguin James Joyce collection—reissues of Joyce's work with fresh new settings and contemporary introductions and notes by leading scholars.
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic—ceaselessly inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'.
This new edition is based on the original 1922 edition, now the preferred text of Joyce's masterwork, and includes an introduction by world-renowned Joycean scholar, Andrew Gibson.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241405949
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Declan Kiberd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 41.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 622g
Pages: 928
About the Author
James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Z rich, on 13 January 1941.
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