Ulysses
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow i
ISBN: 9781088772423
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Ernest Hemingway
Author"Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book."
Debbie Millman
Arts & Design"I also really love a line from Ulysses, which is 'The longest way around is the shortest way home.'"
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Neil Strauss
Author"The book that’s most influenced me."
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Salman Rushdie
Author"Here I am reading a bit of Ulysses, along with others reading other bits, to celebrate this centennial year of the great book."
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Christopher Hitchens
Author"[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]."
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