Ulysses Av James Joyce

For Joyce, literature ''is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man''. Written between 1914 and 1921, <i>Ulysses</i> has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kiberd says in his introduction that <i>Ulysses</i> is ''an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.''<br><br>This Annotated Student Edition has full explanatory notes and line numbers for critical reference.