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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- 100 years ago, Ulysses was published and changed the concept of what constituted a novel. Revolutionary and scandalous, restricted - and then banned - in Australia at one time, it is a novel that tests and titillates the reader in equal measure. Molly Bloom's single sentence soliloquy made many a reader weak at the knees. The 988 pages of this remarkably well-priced edition has copious notes, maps and photos to help and guide the reader. Not an easy read, however this edition garnishes the text with enough information to gratify both the novice and those revisiting this literary masterpiece. Greg
James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th 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 16 June 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 18 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 tantalised 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.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- 100 years ago, Ulysses was published and changed the concept of what constituted a novel. Revolutionary and scandalous, restricted - and then banned - in Australia at one time, it is a novel that tests and titillates the reader in equal measure. Molly Bloom's single sentence soliloquy made many a reader weak at the knees. The 988 pages of this remarkably well-priced edition has copious notes, maps and photos to help and guide the reader. Not an easy read, however this edition garnishes the text with enough information to gratify both the novice and those revisiting this literary masterpiece. Greg
'Absorbing and accessible ... The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses can profitably be read by anyone with an interest in Joyce.' Anne Fogarty, Irish Times
