num_pages: 732
description: The Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941) believed that patterns of human behavior, unconsciously drawn from history of myth, endlessly repeat themselves. So when he decided to tell the story of three Dubliners on one ordinary day, he loosely fashioned their wanderings after those in Homer's Odyssey. On June 16, 1904 (the date of Joyce's first walk with his future wife and now known as Bloomsday, Stephen Dedalus (standing in for Telemachus) and Leopold Bloom (Odysseus) traverse the city, visiting a newspaper office, a funeral, a library, several pubs, a hospital, and a brothel before eventually meeting. Bloom's wife, Molly (Penelope), waits at home, though with something less than the pure faithfulness of her prototype. Joyce sought to accurately convey his characters' thoughts, and so relied on interior, stream-of-consciousness monologues to put the reader inside their often chaotic minds. At heart a comic writer, he also used parody, puns, and hyperbole to great effect. For its inventiveness, depth, and complexity, Ulysses is often nominated as the greatest novel in the English language.
language: English
title: Ulysses
titlecomplete: Ulysses
characters: Josie (Powell) Breen, Kitty Ricketts, Simon Dedalus, Episode Twelve's Nameless Narrator, Terence O'Ryan, Mr Power, Martha Clifford, Fr. Bernard Vaughan, Walter Sexton, D.B. Murphy, Myles Crawford, Kevin Egan, Mr Fox, Fanny Moody, Patrick Aloysius Dignam, jnr., Dilly, Katey, Boody, and Maggy Dedalus, Mr Cornelius Kelleher, Mr Thomas Kernan, Sara (Sally) Goulding, John Eglinton, James Fitzharris, John Corley, Martin Cunningham, Bridget "Bridie" Kelly, Joseph Glynn, Joseph P. Nannetti, Zoe Higgins, Mr Joseph M'Carthy Hynes, Ann Hathaway, Signor Maffei, John "Jacky" Caffrey, Denis Breen, Father Conroy, Mr Hornblower, J.J. O'Molloy, Garrett Deasy, John Henry Menton, Stephen Daedalus, Bob Doran, Mr. Power, Mina Kennedy, Jacob Halliday, Ned Lambert, Mrs Bella Cohen, Stephen MacKenna, Stephen Dedalus, Bantam Lyons, Charles Manners, Mr Bello, Millie Bloom, Leopold Bloom, Florry Talbot, Mother Grogan, Paddy Dignam, Fr. John Conmee, Matthew Lenehan, J. J. O'Molloy, Edy Boardman, Mr Garrett Deasy, Hugh "Blazes" Boylan, Mr. Garret Deasy, Jacky Caffrey, George Russell, Richard Crookback, Patrick Dignam, Mary Dedalus, Haines, Mrs Marion Bloom, Brian Cooper Tweedy, William Humble, Earl of Dudley, Thomas W. Lyster, Barney Kiernan, Marion "Molly" Bloom, Mr O’madden Burke, Mina Purefoy, Boylan, Malachi "Buck" Mulligan, The Citizen, Master Boardman, Cissy Caffrey, Benjamin Dollard, Gerald Ward A.D.C., Blazes Boylan, Tommy Caffrey, Mr Simon Dedalus, Gerty MacDowell, T. Lenehan, Mr Leopold Bloom, Thomas "Tommy" Caffrey, Buck Mulligan, Mrs Josephine Breen, Mr Paddy Dignam, Richie Goulding, Davy Byrne, Lydia Douce, Alf Bergan, Mrs Stoer, Mrs. Dignam, Mr V. Lynch, Tom Rochford
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Unfinished, Ireland, Irish Literature, Banned Books, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 125136
places: Sandymount Strand, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin, Nighttown, Dublin
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Bestes Hörspiel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“
category: Преводна художествена литература, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Premio Ánxel Casal da Edición
category: Premio Lois Tobío á Tradución (Galician), awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción , awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Ann Arbor Media Group