Ulysses

by James Joyce

Categories:  Adventure  Classics  Novel

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Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through the course of an ordinary day in Dublin, Ireland, in 1904. While the novel is structured after Homer's Odyssey, this is not a mythic journey of classical proportions. Bloom is a modern everyman, and Joyce's Dublin is populated by a cast of average townspeople—rich and poor, scholars and drunks, priests and prostitutes. Joyce's frank treatment of such themes as sexuality and religion is matched with plenty of word play, complex references, and stylistic tricks. By no means easy, this important novel is a literary black belt for any reader.

Opening Lines (Experimental)

STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
--INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI.
Halted, he peered down ...

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