About this title: The novel takes place in the course of one day (June 16, 1904) in the life of the city of Dublin, and follows the course of several interacting characters who embody a series of parallels to Homer's epic. The three main characters are Leopold Bloom, his faithless wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus of PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. The novel is a vivid picture of estrangement, alienation, and the disintegration of a society. Joyce uses the capaciousness of the novel as a vehicle for his ideas about art, literature, Ireland, and the nature of heroism, among other things, and its stream-of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, Inc. 1946
Date Published: 1946-01-01
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket. Cool 1946 Modern Library Hardcover-No Dust Jacket. Cover shows some wear. Pages yellowed/tanned. No highlighting or underlining. Name inside front cover. Notation inside back cover. You're gonna love this book! read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good in Fair dust jacket. ULSSES by James Joyce, foreword by Morris L. Ernst-"Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession. " None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the ... read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Publisher: MODERN LIBRARY
Date Published: 1940
Description: Very good. ML-GIANT, free of bookplate, and writings, lettering in spine slightly faded. Name of a eminent professor of lit. as ex owner fep 1940. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Modern Library New York 1946
Description: This edition contains fore word by Morris L Ernst. The decision of the United States district court lifting the ban on Ulysses, owners name, good to very good in red cloth, no jacket. read more
Binding: Leather
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvan
Date Published: 1976
Description: Near Fine/No d.j. 798, Brown leather w/ raised bands and gilt title and decoration at spine, all edges gilt, silk eps, ribbon marker. Slightest scuffs and foxing in gilt edges, slightest shelfwear. Published for The Franklin Library Collection of the 100 Greatest Books of All Time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Lane-The Bodley Head,
Date Published: 1941
Description: 766p, hardback, a VG copy in a VG dustwrapper (its ‘spine' sunned and with minor repairs) First U.K. unlimited edition was published in 1937. read more
Edition: Seventh Impression.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bodley Head, London
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Green covers gilt lettering on spine edge. minor shelf rubbing to edges and corners, small white marks on cover. 939pp. read more
Publisher: New York Random House, 1934 stated, First American Edition
Description: Very good book without previous owners marks, some age darkening to spine letter ing bright, stinge cracked, bookplate pastedown endpaper. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Odyssey Press, London
Date Published: 1932
Description: Very Good. Paperback This is a CT USA stock item. Two volumes. First definitive edition with all of Gilbert Stuart's revisions. Most accurate text. Grey and red titles. Volume 1 spine slightly sunned. read more
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