Ulysses

Loosely based on The Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners in 1904. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. Captivating experimental techniques range from interior monologues to exuberant wordplay and earthy humor, resulting in a major achievement in twentieth-century literature.

Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. JAMES JOYCE was an Irish novelist born in 1882. After receiving his Jesuit education, Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend his life as a writer in various cities across Europe, including Paris, Rome, and Zurich, with his wife Nora Barnacle. Throughout his life, he learned a total of 17 languages, considered becoming a doctor, and was a teacher and a banker. He published his first book, Dubliners, a collection of short stories, in 1914. His second book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, came two years later. Ulysses, Joyce's most known work-a book highly praised as one of the most influential works in literature, and which took Joyce seven years to write and upheld global bans of the novel for some years-was published in 1922. He wrote and published Finnegans Wake in the last years of his life while struggling with health issues, and died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1941.