The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes

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James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.

Catherine Flynn is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of James Joyce and the Matter of Paris (Cambridge 2019) and the editor of the forthcoming The New Joyce Studies (Cambridge 2022). Before studying literature, she practiced as an architect in Vienna, Austria, and in her native Ireland.

'Absorbing and accessible ... The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses can profitably be read by anyone with an interest in Joyce.' Anne Fogarty, Irish Times