Books with title ULYSSES

James Joyce adapted the structure of one of history's oldest and most familiar stories to his tale of Leopold Bloom's one-day odyssey through Dublin to produce a landmark in 20th-century literature. Evoking in rich, sensory details the streets, pubs, brothels, and shops of Dublin, focusing on seemingly insignificant detail, "Ulysses" is a triumphant celebration of an ordinary man. 4 cassettes.

Ulysses begins at about 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, when one of its major participants, young Stephen Dedalus, awakens and interacts with his two housemates, the egotistical medical student, Buck Mulligan, and the overly reserved English student, Haines. The narrative ends some twenty-four hours later, when Stephen, having politely refused lodgings at the home of two other principal characters, Leopold and Molly Bloom, discovers he is no longer welcome to stay with Mulligan and Haines. During the sixteen hours of narrative time, the characters move through their day in Dublin, interacting with a stunning variety of individuals, most of whom are fictional but some of whom represent actual people. Ulysses stands as an inventive, multiple-point-of-view (there are eighteen) vision of daily events, personal attitudes, cultural and political sentiments, and observations of the human condition. It is written in a number of differing literary styles, ranging from internal monologue to first-person speculation to question-and-answer from a catechism to newspaper headlines. The work has eighteen chapters. When taken in context with James Joyce's grander design for it (a playful comparison to Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey), Ulysses gains complexity, irony, and dramatic intensity. Not only does Stephen Dedalus become all the more vivid because of his comparison to Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in the Homeric epic. The other main character, Leopold Bloom, may be seen as the wandering Ulysses. In The Odyssey, Ulysses is seen returning to his wife, that symbol of womanly and cultural virtue, Penelope; in the novel, Joyce uses irony to represent Penelope as Molly Bloom, who that very afternoon had an adulterous encounter with her lover, Blazes Boylan.

NOTE: This is a theatrical version with background 'pub' noise and limited editing to make it more lifelike. Ulysses by James JoyceJames Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses, is often listed as one of the greatest novels ever written. It was first published in serialized form between 1918 and 1920. It was written, however, over a period of 7 years. An experiment in modernism, the novel has a deliberate structure though much of it is written as stream-of-consciousness. Joyce takes fantastic liberties with word choice and prose, imbuing the work with allegory, parodies, and sardonic humor.The novel follows a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, who lives in Dublin, Ireland. Ulysses is divided into 18 episodes that chronicle various events that take place during the day. The novel is a derivation of Homer’s The Odyssey, and the episodes have titles like “Calypso,” “The Lotus Eaters,” “The Cyclops,” and “Ithaca.” However, compared to the adventures and conquests of Odysseus, Bloom’s day is fairly ordinary: he visits friends, attends a funeral, and thinks about his wife, who is unfaithful to him. Joyce often shifts point-of-view from Bloom to other characters.After its publication, Ulysses would greatly influence other modern writers. Though some thought the book too long, complicated, and arduous, others deemed it a work of genius, and lauded him as a pioneer of modernist literature. The novel faced a lot of critics, especially those who believed the book was obscene and blasphemous. It was banned in England until the 1930s. In fact, the vulgarity of the novel was Joyce’s honest depiction of life; Bloom’s day in London is Joyce’s examination of the intricate nature of the world.

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style.Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put to sea again, to escort a vital supply convoy heading for Murmansk. As they head deep into the frozen waters they are faced not only with the fierce arctic weather, but a swarm of airborne attacks, German ships, then the feared U-boats, all hellbent on destroying the convoy. With each day threatening another sudden attack, and increasing hardships aboard the frozen ship, Ulysses suffers greater damage trying to protect the other vessels. And soon the journey becomes a tense and deadly game of cat and mouse between the crippled cruiser and her silent pursuers.

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking. Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904.Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus).

Ulysses's stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose-full of puns, parodies, and allusions-as well as its rich characterizations and broad humour, have made the book perhaps the most highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. According to Joyce scholar Jack Dalton, the first edition of Ulysses contained over two thousand errors but was still the most accurate edition published. The present edition is based on this first edition. As each subsequent edition attempted to correct these "mistakes", it incorporated more of its own. It is the publisher's opinion that basing the present edition on the original publication is the preferred option for any serious reader of Joyce. Additionally, this work is a must for comparison purposes with the other editions.

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