In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text, and this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text.