UlyssesJames Joyce
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal…
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50 in Spinefolk| Format | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
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| Paperback · spa | Cátedra | 2022 | 9788437643946 |
| Paperback · spa | Lumen | 2022 | 9788426407917 |
| Edition | Independently Published | 2022 | 9798812774165 |
| Edition | Penguin Random House | 2022 | 9781784877712 |
| Edition | Independently Published | 2022 | 9798843634919 |
| Edition | Arcturus Publishing | 2022 | 9781398814943 |
| Edition | Independently Published | 2022 | 9798810090632 |
| Edition | Cambridge University Press | 2022 | 9781316515945 |
| Edition | Independently Published | 2022 | 9798795325231 |
| Edition | Cambridge University Press | 2022 | 9781009013079 |
| Edition | Independently Published | 2022 | 9798428573329 |
| Edition | Arcturus Publishing | 2022 | 9781788286350 |
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