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Description
This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.
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Memorable Quotes
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“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
Opening words -
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Ulysses -
“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
Ulysses -
“We feel in England that we have treated you rather unfairly. It seems history is to blame.”
Haines -
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
Stephen Dedalus -
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
Stephen Dedalus -
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
Leopold Bloom -
“A nation is the same people living in the same place.”
Leopold Bloom
First Sentence
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Table of Contents
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- James Joyce (Author)
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