Modern Classics Ulysses

‘Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century’ Anthony Burgess,Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublinthe 16th June 1904and what happens to the characters Stephen DedalusLeopold Bloom and his wife MollyUlysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorshipcontroversy and legal actionand even been deemed blasphemousbut remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly inventivegarrulousfunnysorrowfulvulgarlyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce’s belief that literature ‘is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man’. ‘The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebtedand from which none of us can escape’ T. S. Eliot ‘Intoxicating … a towering workin its word play surpassing even Shakespeare’ Guardian