Ulysses: The Corrected Text by James Joyce c1986 Penguin Books

Description

The corrected text edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses is a significant version of this landmark modernist novel, aiming to present the most accurate representation of Joyce’s intentions. Edited by Hans Walter Gabler, with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior, this edition, first published in 1984, sought to rectify the numerous errors that had accumulated in previous versions of the text.

Ulysses chronicles the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland. The novel primarily follows the parallel journeys and encounters of two main characters:

• Leopold Bloom: A middle-aged Jewish advertising canvasser.
• Stephen Dedalus: A young intellectual and aspiring writer, who was also the protagonist of Joyce’s earlier novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.