ULYSSES - JAMES JOYCE - EASTON PRESS - ILLUSTRATED BY HENRI MATISSE - PRISTINE

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-- Ulysses -- By - James Joyce Illustrated by Henri Mattisse Easton Press Collector's Edition Genuine Leather FINE - Pristine Never Read - Satin Page Marker unmoved from publisher's placement No writings, stamps, or nameplates from previous ownership Offering from a pet- and smoke-free home. I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. - James Joyce In the past, Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and even unreadable. None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. William Blake saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets and argue. Thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running read more

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