{"product_id":"ulysses-by-james-joyce-9781529405538","title":"Ulysses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'It is not that \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not \"what is a novel?\", but what can a novel be? \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e is the answer.'\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick McGuinness from his preface to \u003ci\u003eUlysses: The Restored Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInitially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing 'obscene' content, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000 copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922. A subsequent printing was impounded by US customs, and for a period, the novel was famed for its notoriety rather than its literary achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike its author, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e exists in a complicated push-pull relationship with its language—English—and its setting—Ireland. Joyce returns to the themes that had preoccupied him in previous works, including nationalism and empire, religion, identity, and sex in a novel which gloriously brings Dublin on June 16th, 1904, to the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Restored Text\u003c\/i\u003e includes the revisions that Joyce made to the novel during his lifetime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46998817145068,"sku":"9781529405538","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14477103482732.jpg?v=1763232388","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/ulysses-by-james-joyce-9781529405538","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}