Ulysses - James Joyce

James Joyce

Public domain

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Jim Norton

Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Adults, Literature

Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins Release date: 07-23-08 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks, Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day 16 June 1904 in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife., While Blooms passionate wife, Molly, conducts yet another illicit liasion (with her concert manager), Bloom finds himself getting into arguments with drunken nationalists and wild carousing with excitable medical students, before rescuing Stephen Dedalus from a brawl and returning with him to his own basement kitchen., Set in the shadow of Homers Odyssey, internal thoughts Joyces famous stream of consciousness give physical reality extra colour and perspective. In the hands of Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan, experienced and stimulating Joycean readers, and carefully directed by Roger Marsh, Ulysses becomes accessibl