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

Joyce, James; Flynn, Catherine

ISBN 10: 131651594X / ISBN 13: 9781316515945

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022

About this Item

First thus. Book is in VG+ to Near Fine condition, less a a couple miniscule tears to the top edge of dust jacket, which has been covered with a new Brodart jacket for protected. 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 131651594X
• ISBN 13: 9781316515945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.