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Ulysses Review

Okay, this is clearly the most thought out book I have ever read. You go through it, and you pick out any part and say, why must he be so wordy about two people getting a Guinness, but you realize that he is putting all the mythical overload into trivial events, and that while it is absurd, it is true. If you can read this book in a class, that would be best, but at least be sure to have a complete guide so that you can get some of the allusions. You don't need to catch EVERYthing. It is very show-offy, a bit like Joyce is trying to just pack every single piece of information he's ever picked up into this novel. This can be annoying, but it is also amazing. And I think that was his point, to describe his world and everything in it, through the story of a common man, whose heroism so deeply embedded in him is overlooked.

Ulysses Overview

Ulysses, a Modernist reconstruction of Homer's epic The Odyssey, was James Joyce's first epic-length novel. The Irish writer had already published a collection of short stories entitled Dubliners, as well as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the semi-autobiographical novella, whose protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, reappears in Ulysses. Immediately hailed as a work of genius, Ulysses is still considered to be the greatest of Joyce's literary accomplishments and his first two works anticipated what was to come in Ulysses.

This edition contains extensive overviews of both the author and the novel.

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Customer Reviews

Best cheap edition, w/comparison - C. R. Butler -
I downloaded the previews of all 50+ ebook editions of Ulysses and wrote short reviews for all of them, but Amazon rejected all but 10, so I lost a lot of the data I was going to use for a final comparison. But among the versions I have records for, this one looks like the best.

It's a scan of the controversial 'corrected' Gabler edition, with an 18-chapter ToC and decent italics. It also includes Wikipedia articles on Ulysses and Joyce as frontmatter.

Among the rest, the only non-Gabler editions I've spotted are Ulysses: (A Modern Library E-Book) (its ToC only has the 3 'books') and the Penguin Ulysses.

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Hope this is useful-- hard to know where to post it since Amazon rejected the piecemeal approach.







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