Ulysses

James Joyce

Ulysses

Paris

Shakespeare and Co.

1922

One of 750 copies of the first trade edition.

Ulysses is considered among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, a modernist cornerstone. Written in cities across Europe between 1914 and 1920, Ulysses takes place on a single day in Dublin in 1904, the day Joyce met Nora Barnacle. Key figures from the Irish Literary Revival appear in the novel, either directly by name (George Russell and W. B. Yeats) or by reference (Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge). Although Joyce left Ireland in 1904, seldom to return, Ulysses is as inextricably linked with the city and country of its author’s birth as any work in modern literature.