James Joyce

Ulysses James Joyce

This Theophania Publishing edition of James Joyce?s Ulysses is based upon the 1922 French first edition. The book was originally released as a limited edition of 1000 copies, followed shortly by the British edition which was limited to 2000 copies, 500 of which were burned by the United States Postal Service as obscene. The 1936 American Edition, whose copyright has been renewed by the copyright holder, includes a foreword by Morris L. Ernst, and also contains the decision of the United States District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey regarding whether or not this book should be outlawed for obscenity. These are not included in our edition, but is an interesting fact. Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904 (the day of Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle). The title alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer's Odyssey, and establishes a series of parallels between characters and events in Homer's poem and Joyce's novel (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus).