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Fiction · Modernism

Ulysses

James Joyce
1922 · 694 pages

Leopold Bloom walks Dublin for one day in June 1904, and Joyce pours the whole English language into it. Bloom, advertising canvasser and cuckold, is the kindest man in fiction.

★ 9.7