Query: Novels based on the Odyssey, Ulysses, or by James Joyce
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Cold Mountain (novel)
Ulysses in Nighttown
The Biology of Luck
The Penelopiad
Les Aventures de Télémaque
Circe (novel)
Trojan Odyssey
Olympos (novel)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Hero
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
The World's Desire
Ulysses (novel)
Evidence from documents: Cold Mountain (novel): It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's ''Odyssey''.
Ulysses in Nighttown: Zero Mostel as Leopold Bloom in ''Ulysses in Nighttown'' (1958)
'''''Ulysses in Nighttown''''' is a play based on the fifteenth episode of the 1922 novel ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce (unique among the book's episodes in that it is written as a play script) that was adapted by Marjorie Barkentin and contains incidental music by Peter Link.
The Biology of Luck: '''''The Biology of Luck''''' is a 2013 American novel by Jacob M. Appel. It is a reimagining of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' and is set in New York City.
The Penelopiad: was published in 2005 as part of the first set of books in the ''Canongate Myth Series'' where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. In ''The Penelopiad'', Penelope reminisces on the events of the ''Odyssey'', life in Hades, Odysseus, Helen of Troy, and her relationships with her parents.
Les Aventures de Télémaque: :''"Les Aventures de Télémaque" is also the title of a 1922 seven-chapter story by Louis Aragon.''
Frontispiece and title page of a 1715 English translation
The first page of the first book of ''Les Aventures de Télémaque''


'''''Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse''''' (English: ''The adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulisses'') is a didactic novel by François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, who in 1689 became tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne (grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the French throne). It was published anonymously in 1699 and reissued in 1717 by his family. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's ''Odyssey'', recounting the educational travels of Telemachus, son of Ulysses, accompanied by his tutor, Mentor, who is revealed early on in the story to be Minerva, goddess of wisdom, in disguise.
Circe (novel): Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths, most notably the ''Odyssey'', as told from the perspective of the witch Circe
Trojan Odyssey: '''''Trojan Odyssey''''' is a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler, published first in 2003.
The book opens with a fictional historical overview/flashback to events of Homer's ''Odyssey'', but alters the original plot. In the present day, Dirk Pitt, his son Dirk Pitt, Jr., his daughter Summer Pitt, and friend Al Giordino are involved in the search for the source of a brownish contamination in the ocean's waters, which leads to a diabolical plot that they must unravel and ultimately topple. As this is occurring, discoveries relating to the "true" tale of the Odyssey are made.
Olympos (novel): Like its predecessor it contains many literary references: it blends together Homer's epics the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', and has frequent smaller references to other works, including Proust, James Joyce, Caliban upon Setebos, Shelley's ''Prometheus Unbound'', Shakespearean poetry and even William Blake and Virgil's ''Aeneid''.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: '''''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man''''' is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce
Stephen Hero: '''''Stephen Hero''''' is a posthumously published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce
The Lost Books of the Odyssey: '''''The Lost Books of the Odyssey''''' is a 2007 novel by Zachary Mason, republished in 2010. It is a reimagination of Homer's ''Odyssey''.
The World's Desire: Odysseus, sometimes addressed as Ulysses or simply “the Wanderer,” is returning home from his unsung, second wandering.
Ulysses (novel): lysses''''' is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal ''The Little Review'' from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922