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  • Written by: James Joyce
  • Narrated by: John Lee
  • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Ulysses

Written by: James Joyce
Narrated by: John Lee
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Publisher's Summary

Joyce’s experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day.

As his characters stroll, eat, ruminate, and argue through the streets of Dublin, Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness narrative artfully weaves events, emotions, and memories in a free flow of imagery and associations.

Full of literary references, parody, and uncensored vulgarity, Ulysses has been considered controversial and challenging, but always brilliant and rewarding.
Public Domain (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Classics Literary Fiction
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What the critics say

“Comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence." ( New York Times)
"To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time." (Gilbert Seldes, The Nation)
“Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction." (Edmund Wilson, The New Republic)

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A lot of palaver

On his broad shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.

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A Geat Read for a Great Book.

AMAZING! The narrator does a great job capturing the unique sounds of words, and the vernacular that I think Joyce intended with his prose. Making it all that much easier to understand. Not to mention a noteworthy performance in of itself. Difficult book for sure, but less so with THIS audiobook.

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