Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twenteth century.
After its first publication in Paris in 1922, Ulysses was published in Great Britain by Bodley Head in 1936. These editions, as well as the subsequent resettings, included an increasing number of transmission and printing errors. In 1977 a team of Scholars, led by professor Hans Walter Gabler, began to study manuscripts evidence, typescripts and proofs in an attempt to reconstruct a more accurate text. This edition uses the revised 1983 text of Gabler’s version.