Ulysses (Summarized Edition)

Ulysses (Summarized Edition)

by James JoyceLiam Bennett Liam Bennett and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 10/01/2026

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Ulysses (The Original 1922 Edition) captures a single day—16 June 1904—in Dublin, tracking Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through streets, pubs, and bedrooms while shadowing Homer's Odyssey. Joyce's modernist design deploys stream of consciousness, parody, and pastiche across eighteen episodes: headlines, catechism, a phantasmagoric play, and Molly's unpunctuated "Penelope" seal its formal bravura. Issued in Paris by Sylvia Beach after fraught serializations and censorship, the 1922 text exemplifies the mythic method, marrying minute urban realism to audacious linguistic experiment. Joyce, a self-exiled Dubliner schooled by Jesuits, honed his art in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, intent on recreating Dublin from memory. June 16 honors his first outing with Nora Barnacle; Stephen extends Portrait's crisis; Molly counters male narration. Musical training and philological zeal fuel the novel's polyglot precision. For readers of modernism and daring narrative design, this original edition offers both historical texture and abiding pleasure. Patience helps; a map or annotations can guide, yet the book's wit, tenderness, and democratic attention to ordinary life richly repay any unassisted voyage. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

ISBN:
8596547877516
8596547877516
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
10-01-2026
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quickie Classics
James Joyce

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability.

Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction.

He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zurich, on 13 January 1941.

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