For Joyce literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914
and 1921 Ulysses has survived bowdlerization legal action and bitter controversy. An
undisputed modernist classic its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging
allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan
Kiberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies.
It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904 but it also
offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian
moments.' This Annotated Student Edition has full explanatory notes and line numbers for
critical reference.
