James Joyce - Ulysses

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Ulysses

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882. He was the oldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, where he gave proof of his extraordinary talent. In 1902, following his graduation, he went to Paris, thinking he might attend medical school there. But he soon gave up attending lectures and devoted himself to writing poems and prose sketches and formulating an aesthetic system. Recalled to Dublin in April 1903 because of the fatal illness of his mother, he circled slowly towards his literary career. During the summer of 1904 he met a young woman from Galway, Nora Barnacle, and persuaded her to go with him to die Continent, where he planned to teach English. The young couple spent a few months in Pola (now in Croatia), then in 1905 moved to Trieste, where, except for seven months in Rome and three trips to Dublin, they lived until June 1915. They had two children, a son and a daughter. Joyces first book, the poems of Chamber Music, was published in London in 1907 and Dubliners, a book of stories, in 1914. Italys entrance into the First World War obliged Joyce to move to Zrich, where he remained until 1919. During this period he published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Exiles, a play (1918). After a brief return to Trieste following the armistice, Joyce determined to move to Paris so as to arrange more easily for the publication of Ulysses, a book on which he had been working since 1914. It was, in fact, published on his birthday in Paris in 1922 and brought him international fame. The same year he began work on Finnegans Wake, and though much harassed by eye troubles and deeply affected by his daughters mental illness, he completed and published that book in 1939. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he went to live in unoccupied France, then managed to secure permission, in December 1940, to return to Zrich, where he died on 13 January 1941. He was buried in the Fluntern Cemetery.

Declan Kiberd was born in Eccles Street, Dublin, in 1951. He graduated from Trinity College before going on to take a doctorate at Oxford University. His publications include Synge and the Irish Language (1979), Anglo-Irish Attitudes (1984) and Men and Feminism in Modern Literature (1985). He has lectured in over fifteen countries and written many articles and television scripts on the literature and politics of Ireland. A former director of the Yeats International Summer School, he has taught for more than a decade at University College Dublin. He is married, with two daughters and a son.

Seamus Deane is General Editor for the works of James Joyce in Penguin. He is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

JAMES JOYCE

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY DECLAN KIBERD

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First published in Paris by Shakespeare and Company 1922
This edition first published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head 1960
and in the USA by Random House 1961
Reset and published in Penguin Books 1968
The 1960 Bodley Head text onset and reissued with an introduction 1992
Reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000
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PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF ULYSSES

SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY, PARIS
February 1922:1,000 numbered copies

EGOIST PRESS, LONDON
October 1922:2,000 numbered copies, of which 500 copies
were detained by the New York Post Office Authorities

EGOIST PRESS, LONDON
January 1923: 500 numbered copies, of which 499 copies
were seized by the Customs Authorities, Folkestone

SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY, PARIS
January 1924: unlimited edition (reset 1926)

THE ODYSSEY PRESS,
HAMBURG, PARIS, BOLOGNA
December 1932: unlimited edition

RANDOM HOUSE, NEW YORK
January 1934: unlimited edition

LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, NEW YORK
October 1935:1,500 copies, illustrated and signed by Henri Matisse

THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON
October 1936:1,000 copies, of which 100 are signed by the author

THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON
September 1937: first unlimited edition

THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON
April 1960: reset edition

RANDOM HOUSE, NEW YORK
1961: reset edition

PENGUIN BOOKS, LONDON
1968: reset, unlimited paperback edition

FRANKLIN LIBRARY, NEW YORK
Between 1976 and 1979 three illustrated editions
mere issued in special bindings

GARLAND PUBLISHING, NEW YORK
June 1984: critical and synoptic edition