| Ulysses Contributor(s): Joyce, James (Author), Ernst, Morris L. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0679600116 ISBN-13: 9780679600114 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: The 1934 text, as corrected and reset in 1961. Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on, and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book their literary magazine The Little Review in 1918, they were arrested and charged with publishing obscenity. They were fined $100, and even The New York Times expressed satisfaction with their conviction. Ulysses was not published in book form until 1922, when another American woman, Sylvia Beach, published it in Paris for her Shakespeare & Company. Ulysses was not available legally in any English-speaking country until 1934, when Random House successfully defended Joyce against obscenity charges and published it in the Modern Library. This edition follows the complete and unabridged text as corrected and reset in 1961. Judge John Woolsey's decision lifting the ban against Ulysses is reprinted, along with a letter from Joyce to Bennett Cerf, the publisher of Random House, and the original foreword to the book by Morris L. Ernst, who defended Ulysses during the trial. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92050221 |
| Series: Modern Library of the World's Best Books |
| Physical Information: 1.57" H x 5.74" W x 8.24" (1.90 lbs) 816 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 60669 Reading Level: 7.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 46.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. |