Ulysses: Introduction by Craig Raine

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Author/Contributor(s): Joyce, James; Raine, Craig Publisher: Everyman's Library Date: 10/28/1997 Binding: Hardcover Condition: NEW The most famous day in literature is June 16, 190 4, 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. Show more