The most dangerous book

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An artistic and legal history of James Joice's Ulysses.

Description

For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, "Ulysses, " ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of "Ulysses "was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom's day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful precision in its pages. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice immediately banned the novel as "obscene, lewd, and lascivious." Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. "The Most Dangerous Book" tells the remarkable story surrounding "Ulysses," from the first stirrings of Joyce's inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933.

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• The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's UlyssesPenguin Press2014-01-01
• Most Dangerous BookHead of Zeus2014-01-01
• The Most Dangerous BookHardcoverThe Penguin Press2014-01-01
• The Most Dangerous BookHardcoverHead of Zeus2014-07-21
• Most Dangerous BookHead of Zeus2015-01-01
• The Most Dangerous BookPaperbackPenguin Books2015-05-26