{"product_id":"9781529405538","title":"Ulysses","description":"Author: James Joyce\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529405538\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Quercus Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Sep 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 592 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be?  \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e is the answer'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatrick McGuinness from his preface to \u003ci\u003eUlysses: The Restored Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInitially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing 'obscene' content, \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000 copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922. A subsequent printing was impounded by US customs and for a period the novel was famed for its notoriety rather than its literary achievement.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike its author, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e exists in a complicated push-pull relationship with its language - English - and its setting - Ireland. Joyce returns to the themes that had preoccupied him in previous works, including nationalism and empire, religion, identity and sex in a novel which gloriously brings Dublin on June 16th 1904 to the page.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition of\u003ci\u003e Ulysses\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Restored Text\u003c\/i\u003e includes the revisions that Joyce made to the novel during his lifetime.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67954037424286,"sku":"ADS-9781529405538","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529405538.jpg?v=1794048318","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529405538","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}