Ulysses was originally serialized in The Little Review from 1918 to 1920. The story, divided into 18 episodes, follows Leopold Bloom as he travels through Dublin on June 16, 1904. The date is the actual day of Joyce’s first date with his wife. The story corresponds to Homer’s epic Odyssey. The title is the Latin form of Odysseus, the Odyssey’s protagonist.
Modern Library ranked Ulysses as the most important English-language novel of the twentieth century.
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