Ulysses
Ulysses,a novel by J. Joyce , serialized in the Little Review from 1918 . The editors of the Little Review were prosecuted and found guilty of publishing obscenity, which led to the novel's publication in a non-English-speaking country: it was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach in 1922 . Copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York post office authorities, and the Folkestone customs authorities seized the second edition in 1923 . Various later editions appeared abroad, and, after the United States District Court found the book not obscene in 1933 , the first English edition appeared in 1936 , and the first unlimited edition in America and England in 1937 .
The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16 June 1904 (the anniversary of Joyce's first walk with Nora Barnacle , who became his wife), now known as ‘Bloomsday’.
The principal characters are Stephen...
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