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    Ulysses

    Ulysses

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    by James Joyce


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      BN ID: 2940013674103
    • Publisher: Green Light
    • Publication date: 01/01/2012
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
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    James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. He was the oldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. Nonetheless, he was educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, where he gave proof of his extraordinary talent.

    In 1902, following his graduation, he went to Paris, thinking he might attend medical school there, but he soon gave up attending lectures and devoted himself to writing poems and prose sketches, and formulating an "aesthetic system'." Recalled to Dublin in April 1903 because of the fatal illness of his mother, he circled slowly towards his literary career. During the summer of 1904 he met a young woman from Galway, Nora Barnacle, and persuaded her to go with him to the Continent, where he planned to teach English.The young couple spent a few months in Pola (now in Yugoslavia), then in 1905 moved to Trieste, where, except for seven months in Rome and three trips to Dublin, they lived until June 1915. They had two children, a son and a daughter. His first book, the poems of Chamber Music, was published in London in 1907, and Dubliners, a book of stories, in 1914. Italy's entrance into the First World War obliged Joyce to move to Zürich, where he remained until 1919. During this period he published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Exiles, a play (1918).

    After a brief return to Trieste following the armistice, Joyce determined to move to Paris so as to arrange more easily for the publication of Ulysses, a book which he had been working on since 1914. It was, in fact, published on his birthday in Paris, in 1922, and brought him international fame. The same year he began work on Finnegan's Wake, and though much harassed by eye troubles, and deeply affected by his daughter's mental illness, he completed and published that book in 1939. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he went to live in Unoccupied France, then managed to secure permission in December 1940 to return to Zürich. Joyce died there six weeks later, on 13 January 1941, and was buried in the Fluntern Cemetery.

    Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

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    Brief Biography

    Date of Birth:
    February 2, 1882
    Date of Death:
    January 13, 1941
    Place of Birth:
    Dublin, Ireland
    Place of Death:
    Zurich, Switzerland
    Education:
    B.A., University College, Dublin, 1902
    Website:
    http://www.jamesjoyce.ie

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    Ulysses is a novel by Irish author James Joyce. Although it was banned soon after it was published, it has become known as one of the greatest novels of all time. A classic of the Modernist pantheon, Ulysses pioneers many literary techniques such as stream-of-consciousness.

    The novel takes place on 16 June 1904 in Dublin and chronicles the day in the life of Leopold Bloom. June 16th is now celebrated internationally as Bloomsday. Paralleling Odysseus' journey in Homer's Odyssey, the novel covers 18 episodes and has been endlessly studied and admired by fans who refer to themselves as Joycean scholars.

    Exquisitely formatted by our Joycean editors with text images and a linked table of contents.


    Ranked the Number 1 Novel of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library


    One of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian


    Ranked 28 of the 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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