Ulysses: Corrected Text (Twentieth Century Classics). With a new preface by Richard Ellmann

James Joyce:

ISBN 10: 0140181059 / ISBN 13: 9780140181050

Published by Penguin Books, 1986

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649 S. "Ulyssses revolts against history as hatred and violence, and speaks in its most intense moments of their opposite. It does so with the keenest sense of how love can degenerate into dreamy creaminess or into brutishness, can claim to be all soul or all body, when only in the union of both can it truly exist. Like other comedies, Ulysses ends in a vision of reconciliation. -The Corrected Text - the Garland Edition (Garland, New York, 1984) is the fruit of seven year's research, during which the editors returned to the manuscripts, drafts and proofs of the first edition in order to reconstruct as closely as possible Joyce's original intention." (Verlagstext) Leichte Gebrauchs- oder Lagerspuren. Einband leicht angestaubt mit Leseknicken rückseitig. Papier / Buchschnitt altersbedingt gebräunt. Sonst gut erhalten, mit festem Buchblock, ohne Einträge oder Markierungen, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560 Gr.-8°, 23x14,5x3,5cm, broschiert, foto-ill. TB-Einband.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ulysses: Corrected Text (Twentieth Century Classics). With a new preface by Richard Ellmann
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140181059
• ISBN 13: 9780140181050
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1. Aufl., EA.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 560 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Englische Literatur

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Synopsis

Dealing with one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, this book centres around Stephen Dedalus, the hero of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". Various chapters correspond to episodes of Homer's "Odyssey" and the style employs certain techniques, including stream of consciousness and parody.

About the Author

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 Zürich, on 13 January 1941.