{"product_id":"ulysses-isbn-9780679722762","title":"Ulysses","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.\"Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that \u003ci\u003eGargantua\u003c\/i\u003e immortalized Rabelais, and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e immortalized Dostoyevsky.... It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Gilbert Seldes, in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Talk about understanding \"feminine psychology\"-- I have never read anything to surpass it, and I doubt if I have ever read anything to equal it.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Arnold Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the last pages of the book, Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Edmund Wilson, in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include \u003ci\u003eChamber Music \u003c\/i\u003e(1907), \u003ci\u003eDubliners \u003c\/i\u003e(1914), \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1916), \u003ci\u003eExiles \u003c\/i\u003e(1918), \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003e(1922), \u003ci\u003ePomes Penyeach \u003c\/i\u003e(1927), and \u003ci\u003eFinnegan's Wake \u003c\/i\u003e(1939). \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003erequired seven years to complete and \u003ci\u003eFinnegan's Wake, \u003c\/i\u003etook seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eIntroibo ad altare Dei.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHalted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSolemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuck Milligan peeped an instant under the mirror and then covered the bowl smartly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Back to barracks, he said sternly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe added in a preacher's tone:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One moment. A little trouble about those white corpuscles. Silence, all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points. Chrysostomos. Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely. Switch off the current, will you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages. A pleasant smile broke quietly over his lips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--The mockery of it, he said gaily. Your absurd name, an ancient Greek.Revised","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302159700197,"sku":"NP9780679722762","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679722762.jpg?v=1767743135","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ulysses-isbn-9780679722762","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}