Joyce James

2004 · réf. T600 — VERY GOOD — CLAMSHELL: Slight bump to bottom outside corner front board and corresponding box corner. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. A couple of small irregularities to gilt on textblock head. Please read description and inspect photos closely for condition details. Here on offer is a very fine example of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece Ulysses chronicling the experiences of three Dubliners over the course of a single day 16 June 1904 which its fans now celebrate annually as Bloomsday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and a classic of the genre having been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". This beautiful copy is a numbered 1st edition thus 1st printing of the work published in 2004 by The Folio Society in London UK. Printed on Cordier Wove paper at St. Edmondsbury Press Bury St Edmonds and bound in full goatskin leather by Real-Lachenmaier Reutlingen Germany. It is protected by a handsome clamshell case. The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books poetry and children's titles. Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned illustrations most often in fiction titles or researched artworks and photographs in non-fiction titles. Most editions come with their own slipcase. " 'Ulysses' is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book in their literary magazine The Little Review in 1918 they were arrested and charged with publishing obscenity. They were fined $100 and even The New York Times expressed satisfaction with their conviction. Ulysses was not published in book form until 1922 when another American woman Sylvia Beach published it in Paris in her Shakespeare & Company. Ulysses was not available legally in any English-speaking country until 1934 when Random House successfully defended Joyce against obscenity charges and published it in the Modern Library." /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 was an Irish novelist poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses 1922 is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners 1914 and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 and Finnegans Wake 1939. His other writings include three books of poetry a play letters and occasional journalism. . . . Joyce's work still has a profound influence on contemporary culture. Ulysses is a model for fiction writers particularly its explorations in the power of language. Its emphasis on the details of everyday life have opened up new possibilities of expression for authors painters and film-makers. It retains its prestige among readers often ranking high on 'Great Book' lists. . . . In popular culture the work and life of Joyce is celebrated annually on 16 June known as Bloomsday in Dublin and in an increasing number of cities worldwide. . . . The above text was taken from respectively Wikipedia and Random House Publishing Group via Google Books The Folio Society hardcover