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Ulysses. [hardcover. with Court Decision & Letter to Bennett Cerf. Book Club Edition - BCE)

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Ulysses. [hardcover. with Court Decision & Letter to Bennett Cerf. Book Club Edition - BCE)

by Joyce, James

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NY. Random House. (c1946) HARDCOVER.. Near Fine/Fair dj. (appears never read. covers & text clean/tight/bright, no writings. jacket scuffed, edge worn & chipped) 8vo. Later undated Book Club copy with dot on back cover. xviii. + 768pp. + blanks. Green cloth covers, black & gilt cover stampings. Foreword of 1933 by Morris L. Ernst. Book Club Edition. Includes the U.S. District Court decision by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban & Letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf. Book appears never read: covers & interior clean/tight/bright, no writings. Jacket scuffed, chipped, edge worn.

Synopsis

Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce. It was first serialized in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and later published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Originally, Joyce conceived of Ulysses as a short story to be included in Dubliners , but decided instead to publish it as a long novel, situated as a sort of sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , picking up Stephen Dedalus’s life over a year later. Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin - now celebrated as Bloomsday annually. Within the massive text of 265,000 words (not so “short” anymore, eh?), divided into 18 episodes, Joyce radically shifts narrative style with each new episode, completely abandoning the previously accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters. The presentation of a fragmented reality through interior perception in Ulysses , often through stream-of-consciousness, is one of many reasons it is considered a paramount in Modernist literature.  Ulysses presents a series of parallels with Homer’s epic poem Odyssey (Ulysses is the Latinized name of Odysseus.) Not only can correspondences be drawn between the main characters of each text — Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus, Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, and Molly Bloom to Penelope, but each of the 18 episodes of Ulysses reflects an adventure from the Odyssey. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. February 2022 will mark the centennial of the publishing of Ulysses , with auctions, sales, and celebrations by Joyce fans scheduled around the globe. From our Book Collecting Guide: Collecting Ulysses  https://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/basics/collecting-one-book/collecting-ulysses-by-james-joyce/

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Title
Ulysses. [hardcover. with Court Decision & Letter to Bennett Cerf. Book Club Edition - BCE)
Author
Joyce, James
Format/Binding
HARDCOVER.
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine/Fair dj. (appears never read. covers & text clean/tight/bright, no writings. jacket scuffed, edge worn & chipp
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Random House.
Place of Publication
NY.
Date Published
(c1946)
Pages
xviii. + 768pp.
Keywords
20th Century Irish Literature Novels Fiction, James Joyce
Size
8vo.

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