Ulysses (Gabler Edition) (Paperback)

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Ulysses is one of *those* books. The kind that sit on your shelf, the kind you'd love to brag about having read, the kind that you figure could change your life if only you had the time or opportunity to really dig into it. Well, I'm happy to say Ulysses really might be the greatest novel of all time. I had to read it for a class in spring of 2018 and loved every bit of it (well maybe not every bit). Sure, there's lots to miss but that also means there's plenty to get! A few episodes will make you want to bang your head on the wall because of how esoteric they are (looking at you "Oxens of the Sun"), while others will leave you absolutely speechless with Joyce's language. You'll definitely laugh, you might cry, and you might chuck the brick across the room! Ulysses is the only book I think everyone should read because it is that universal, that entertaining, and that essential.

— From Meet Matthieu

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The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions.

Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts, and proofs in order to produce as accurate and complete a new edition as possible. First published in 1984, the Gabler edition was hailed as a monumental achievement, one that makes this great and complex novel more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. Also included is a preface by the distinguished Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, a foreword and note on the text by Gabler, and an afterword by Michael Groden.

Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.

About the Author


James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Pomes Penyeach (1927), and Finnegan's Wake (1939). Ulysses required seven years to complete and Finnegan's Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.

Praise For…


"[The Gabler edition] fixes 5,000 errors . . . involving punctuation, omitted words, phrases, and even entire sentences, an average of seven flaws for every printed page." --The New York Times


Product Details
ISBN: 9780394743127
ISBN-10: 0394743121
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: May 12th, 1986
Pages: 680
Language: English
Series: Vintage