The New Bloomsday Book - A Guide Through Ulysses

An indispensable guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time, provding a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses.Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this guide to "Ulysses" in negotiating their way through this formidable, remarkable novel. It is a page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of "Ulysses", which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way, and is aimed at anyone encountering Joyce's novel for the first time. To ensure that it remains 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.