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ulysses is a difficult book. getting through it the first time was not easy for me; i gave it up twice. on the third try, i took it very slowly and read this guide along with it. whenever i began to lose my way in ulysses, i read up to that point in the new bloomsday book, and so got back on course. i do have a couple complaints with the guide. i sometimes found it too interpretive. i...
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As if Ulysses isn't compicated enough, publishing companies have the nerve to come out with the annotation books that go through EVERY word in EVERY sentence. This book is precise and straight to the point. Blamires is a genious for this. This was my biggest help, besides my discussion group, in getting through the magnificent work of Art, Ulysses. Definetly a getter!
Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve.
The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time.
To ensure that Blamires' 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.