Ulysses

James Joyce's most celebrated novel, and one of the most highly regarded novels in the English language, records the events of one day-Thursday the 16th of June, 1904-in the city of Dublin.

The reader is first reintroduced to Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of Joyce's previous novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Stephen is now living in a rented Martello tower and working at a school, having completed his B.A. and a period of attempted further study in Paris. The focus th ...