Ulysses : Hodges Figgis Centenary Edition
Twenty-four hours in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece is playful, sly, bawdy and humane and deserving of a much broader audience.
Synopsis
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, 16 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’.
‘Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century’ Anthony Burgess
Ulysses is the first volume in the Hodges Figgis James Joyce Collection.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241609125