Set entirely in Dublin over the course of just one ordinary day (Thursday 16 June, 1904), and divided into a series of eighteen episodes, Joyce’s sprawling, three-part epic famously chronicles the adventures of his modern day Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, establishing a number of distinct parallels with Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey (Ulysses being the Latinised name of Homer’s hero Odysseus), though unfolding on a significantly more intimate and mundane scale. Returning to that original 1922 edition of the novel for what is arguably the most authoritative version available to date, editors and Joyce scholars, Danis Rose (principal editor of Folio’s 2014 edition of Finnegans Wake) and John O’Hanlon (Rose’s long-time collaborator), have done a quite brilliant job, brining the full weight of their expertise to what proves a definitive 95th anniversary edition of the novel, exclusively available from The Folio Society. Ulysses by James Joyce, The Folio Society 2017 11½˝ x 8˝įirst published in its entirety in February 1922, James Joyce’s epic, modernist tome is widely considered to be amongst the greatest and most innovative works of the 20th century, but although many people have attempted to tackle its challenging 700+ pages, considerably few seem to have actually reached the holy grail that is its final page – without skipping of course!.Frontispiece and 18 colour illustrations |.Bound in cloth, printed and blocked with a design by the artist |.Introduced by Danis Rose, John O’Hanlon and Stacey Herbert

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