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The New Bloomsday Book

A Guide Through Ulysses

by Harry Blamires


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Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to negotiate "Ulysses". "The New Bloomsday Book" is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line commentary on the plot of "Ulysses", illuminating symbolic themes and structures along the way. To ensure that Blamires's classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions of Ulysses: the Oxford University Press `World Classics' (1993), the Penguin `Twentieth-Century Classics' (1992), and the Gabler`Corrected Text' (1986) editions.


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9780415138581 9780415138581, Paperback, Routledge, 1996

$26.24 (Very Good)

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9780415138574 9780415138574, Hardcover, Routledge, 1996

$72.34 (Very Good)

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Publisher Notes

The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, line by line running commentary on the plot of James Joyce's Ulysses which illuminates many symbolic themes and literary structures along the way.

Since 1966, readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide which makes this intimidating novel accessible. Designed to help the student and the general reader to find their way quickly about Joyce's formidable novel, The New Bloomsday Book will enable someone approaching Joyce for the first time to reach an understanding of the novel which otherwise might have taken several readings.

"It remains, the only commentary in which paraphrase is largely employed without detriment to one's sense of the interest of the novel." --Books Ireland

To ensure that Blamires' classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to the three most commonly read editions of Ulysses: the

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