Overview
Set over the course of a single day—June 16, 1904—and widely considered to be one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, Joyce’s stylistic masterpiece is integral to Random House’s publishing history.
In celebration of Random House’s 100th anniversary, the publisher is reissuing this landmark publication as a hardcover edition featuring bold new cover art, a stunning paper-over-board design, and custom endpapers.
Ulysses was first introduced in the United States in 1918 in excerpts published by the literary magazine the Little Review, but the owners were arrested and charged with publishing obscenity, leading to a trial and the eventual banning of Ulysses in the United States. Due to the ban, the first complete English edition was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in 1922. In 1933, Random House engaged in and won a legal battle to overturn the ban and published the first authorized American edition in 1934 on the Modern Library list.
Set across a single day in Dublin in 1904, Ulysses follows salesman Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly, and a young intellectual named Stephen Dedalus as they wander the city. A feat of the imagination and largely inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, the story unfolds through stream of consciousness narration and experimental prose styles, making it one of the most important works of modernist literature.
In celebration of Random House’s 100th anniversary, the publisher is reissuing this landmark publication as a hardcover edition featuring bold new cover art, a stunning paper-over-board design, and custom endpapers.
Ulysses was first introduced in the United States in 1918 in excerpts published by the literary magazine the Little Review, but the owners were arrested and charged with publishing obscenity, leading to a trial and the eventual banning of Ulysses in the United States. Due to the ban, the first complete English edition was published in Paris by Shakespeare & Company in 1922. In 1933, Random House engaged in and won a legal battle to overturn the ban and published the first authorized American edition in 1934 on the Modern Library list.
Set across a single day in Dublin in 1904, Ulysses follows salesman Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly, and a young intellectual named Stephen Dedalus as they wander the city. A feat of the imagination and largely inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, the story unfolds through stream of consciousness narration and experimental prose styles, making it one of the most important works of modernist literature.
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