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Ulysses

by James Joyce (1882–1941)

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  • 18 hours to read
  • 78 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"Ulysses" by James Joyce is a modernist novel published in 1922. It chronicles one day in Dublin—June 16, 1904—following three characters whose experiences mirror Homer's Odyssey. Leopold Bloom parallels Odysseus, his wife Molly echoes Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus reflects Telemachus. Through experimental prose styles and stream of consciousness technique, Joyce explores themes of identity, Irish life, and human consciousness. The novel's complexity, literary allusions, and revolutionary approach to depicting thought have made it one of modernism's most celebrated and debated works.

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  • City and town life
  • Psychological fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Married people
  • Male friendship
  • Dublin (Ireland)
  • Epic literature
  • Artists

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In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis

Before Nelson’s pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey, Clonskea, Rathgar and Terenure, Palmerston Park and upper Rathmines, Sandymount Green, Rathmines, Ringsend and Sandymount Tower, Harold’s Cross. The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company’s timekeeper bawled them off:

—Rathgar and Terenure!

—Come on, Sandymount Green!

Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel.

—Start, Palmerston Park!

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Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis
  3. The Wearer of the Crown
  4. Gentlemen of the Press
  5. William Brayden, Esquire, of Oaklands, Sandymount
  6. The Crozier and the Pen
  7. How a Great Daily Organ Is Turned Out
  8. We See the Canvasser at Work
  9. Orthographical
  10. Noted Churchman an Occasional Contributor
  11. A Dayfather
  12. And It Was the Feast of the Passover
  13. Only Once More That Soap
  14. Erin, Green Gem of the Silver Sea
  15. Short But to the Point
  16. His Native Doric
  17. What Wetherup Said
  18. Memorable Battles Recalled
  19. O, Harp Eolian!
  20. Spot the Winner
  21. A Collision Ensues
  22. Exit Bloom
  23. The Calumet of Peace
  24. The Grandeur That Was Rome
  25. Shindy in Wellknown Restaurant
  26. Lost Causes Noble Marquess Mentioned
  27. Kyrie Eleison!
  28. Lenehan’s Limerick
  29. Omnium Gatherum
  30. The Great Gallaher
  31. A Distant Voice
  32. Clever, Very
  33. Rhymes and Reasons
  34. Links with Bygone Days of Yore
  35. Italia, Magistra Artium
  36. A Polished Period
  37. A Man of High Morale
  38. Impromptu
  39. From the Fathers
  40. Let Us Hope
  41. Dear Dirty Dublin
  42. Life on the Raw
  43. Return of Bloom
  44. Interview with the Editor
  45. Raising the Wind
  46. Those Slightly Rambunctious Females
  47. Hello There, Central!
  48. Horatio Is Cynosure This Fair June Day
  49. Cissy Caffrey
  50. Bloom: O
  51. The Soap
  52. Tom and Sam
  53. The Whores
  54. A Voice from the Gallery
  55. Bloom’s Boys
  56. The Babes and Sucklings
  57. Bloom
  58. The Prison Gate Girls
  59. The Daughters of Erin
  60. The Gramophone
  61. The Moth
  62. The Cardinal
  63. The Waterfall
  64. The Waterfall
  65. The Waterfall
  66. The Sluts
  67. Zoe
  68. Stephen
  69. The Crowd
  70. Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey
  71. The Pianola
  72. The Pianola
  73. The Pianola
  74. Zoe
  75. The Pianola
  76. The Choir
  77. The Croppy Boy
  78. Stephen

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This free edition of Ulysses by James Joyce comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #4300, released 2003-07-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Novels, Classics of Literature, British Literature.

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