{"product_id":"ulysses-9780679600114","title":"Ulysses","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Little Review\u003c\/i\u003e in 1918, they were arrested and charged with publishing obscenity. They were fined $100, and even \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e expressed satisfaction with their conviction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e was not published in book form until 1922, when another American woman, Sylvia Beach, published it in Paris her Shakespeare \u0026amp; Company. \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition follows the complete and unabridged text as corrected and reset in 1961. Judge John Woolsey's decision lifting the ban against \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e during the trial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as \"Bloomsday\" in his novel \u003ci\u003eUlysses. \u003c\/i\u003eNora was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion and the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then through the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include \u003ci\u003eChamber Music \u003c\/i\u003e(1907), \u003ci\u003eDubliners \u003c\/i\u003e(1914), \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1916), \u003ci\u003eExiles \u003c\/i\u003e(1918), \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003e(1922), \u003ci\u003ePomes Penyeach \u003c\/i\u003e(1927), \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake \u003c\/i\u003e(1939), and an early draft of \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero \u003c\/i\u003e(1944). \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003erequired seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake, \u003c\/i\u003etook seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621769056530,"sku":"9780679600114","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89def16e-a6cb-4841-8cb4-5b8c78da6a69.jpg?v=1768914025","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ulysses-9780679600114","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}