In James Joyce's Ulysses, you enter one day in the lives of Stephen Dedalus (Telemachus) and Leopold Bloom (Odysseus). Set in 1904 Dublin, the novel parallels Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. It's an inventive, multiple-point-of-view vision of personal attitudes, cultural and political sentiments, and observations of the human condition. James Joyce's realistic and irreverent novel, told in stream-of-consciousness style, was once banned in the U.S. but is now a modern classic.
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