Ulysses by James Joyce

Previously published as Ulysses by James Joyce. A unique edition: beautifully formatted with optimized, easy-to-read fonts; complete, unabridged, original version of the first 1922 edition; annotated, with James Joyce’s Amazing Chronicle by Dr. Joseph Collins; A masterwork of modernist literature, Ulysses used the structure of the Homeric Odyssey as a contrast to the lives of the Dublin working class. The entire work takes place during Dublin's “dailiest day possible,” Thursday, 16 June 1904. The bleak lives of the Dublin working class formed a stark contrast to the heroic Odyssey, and Joyce's frank realism was too avant-garde for the cultural police of the day. From the first installment in 1918, censorship issues dogged Ulysses, eventually forcing a halt to its serialization in 1920. The first editors Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were convicted in New York of publishing obscenity….