Ulysses

"Ulysses" is James Joyce's magnum opus and one of the key texts of 20th-century modernist literature. The action unfolds over the course of a single day—June 16, 1904—in Dublin. The narrative centers on seemingly ordinary events in the lives of advertising agent Leopold Bloom, the young writer Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom. Following parallels with Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," the author t...