Books with title H. M. S. Ulysses

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 the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early twentieth century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel imitates registers of centuries of English literature and is highly allusive.Since publication, Ulysses has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual "Joyce Wars". Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose - full of puns, parodies, and allusions - as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the modernist pantheon. Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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.

Joyce's experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer's Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day. As his characters stroll, eat, ruminate, and argue through the streets of Dublin, Joyce's stream-of-consciousness narrative artfully weaves events, emotions, and memories in a free flow of imagery and associations. Full of literary references, parody, and uncensored vulgarity, Ulysses has been considered controversial and challenging, but always brilliant and rewarding. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses No. 1 and A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man No. 3 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. In 1999, Time magazine named Joyce one of the 100 most important people of the twentieth century and stated that ''Joyce . . . revolutionized 20th century fiction.''

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.

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.