Skip to Main Content (Press Enter)

Ulysses

Introduction by Craig Raine

By James Joyce

By James Joyce

By James Joyce
Introduction by Craig Raine

By James Joyce
Introduction by Craig Raine

By James Joyce
Foreword by Morris L. Ernst

By James Joyce
Foreword by Morris L. Ernst

By James Joyce

By James Joyce

Best Seller

Part of Vintage International

Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Paperback $18.00

Jun 16, 1990 | ISBN 9780679722762

Hardcover $32.00

Oct 28, 1997 | ISBN 9780679455134

Hardcover $28.00

Sep 05, 1992 | ISBN 9780679600114

Ebook $13.99

Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641629

All Formats
+
    Ulysses by James Joyce
    Hardcover $32.00
    Oct 28, 1997 | ISBN 9780679455134

    Buy from Other Retailers:

    See All Formats (3) +

    Paperback
    +

    • Paperback $18.00

      Jun 16, 1990 | ISBN 9780679722762

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Hardcover (2)
    –

    • Hardcover $32.00

      Oct 28, 1997 | ISBN 9780679455134

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    • Hardcover $28.00

      Sep 05, 1992 | ISBN 9780679600114

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook

      Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641629

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Buy the Ebook:

    About Ulysses

    This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961.

    Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.

    This edition contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.

    About Ulysses

    The most famous day in literature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, contemplates his wife’s imminent adultery, and, late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the city’s red-light district.

    An earthy story, a virtuoso technical display, and a literary revolution all rolled into one, James Joyce’s Ulysses is a touchstone of our modernity and one of the towering achievements of the human mind.

    About Ulysses

    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.

    About Ulysses

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    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 in 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 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.

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Also by James Joyce

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    Joyce: Poems and a Play
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    See all books by James Joyce

    Also by James Joyce

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    Joyce: Poems and a Play
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    See all books by James Joyce

    Also by James Joyce

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    Joyce: Poems and a Play
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    See all books by James Joyce

    Also by James Joyce

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    Joyce: Poems and a Play
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    Dubliners
    See all books by James Joyce

    About James Joyce

    James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After… More about James Joyce

    About James Joyce

    James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After… More about James Joyce

    About James Joyce

    James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After… More about James Joyce

    About James Joyce

    James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After… More about James Joyce

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 16, 1990 | 816 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679722762

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $32.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 28, 1997 | 1144 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679455134

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Sep 05, 1992 | 816 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780679600114

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 816 Pages | ISBN 9780679641629
    YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

    Praise

    “Joyce’s parallel use of The Odyssey…has the importance of a scientific discovery…It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history…It is, I seriously believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art.” –T. S. Eliot

    “Ulysses has enough verbal splendor to furnish a legion of novels…You will have difficulty finding a fuller portrait of the natural man.” –Harold Bloom, The Western Canon

    “One might almost risk praising [Ulysses] for being a work of literature in which the spirit of one man is eternally confirmed in all its complexity.” –from the Introduction

    With an Introduction by Craig Raine

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
    Get the latest updates about James Joyce
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    By clicking SIGN UP, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
    Dismiss
    Thanks!
    Something awesome is on its way.
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Raise kids who love to read

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    Today's Top Books

    Today's Top Books

    Want to know what people are actually reading right now?
    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook