Ulysses

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce Free eBook

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Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce

Joyce divides Ulysses into 18 episodes that "roughly correspond to the episodes in Homer's Odyssey".Homer's Odyssey is divided into 24 books (sections).

It has been suggested by scholars that every episode of Ulysses has a theme, technique and correspondence between its characters and those of the Odyssey. The text of the published novel does not include the episode titles that are used below, nor the correspondences, which originate from the Linati and Gilbert schemata. Joyce referred to the episodes by their Homeric titles in his letters. He took the idiosyncratic rendering of some of the titles, e.g. "Nausikaa" and the "Telemachiad" from Victor Bérard's two-volume Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée which he consulted in 1918 in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.

While the action of Joyce's novel takes place during one ordinary day in early twentieth-century Dublin, Ireland, in Homer's epic, Odysseus, "a Greek hero of the Trojan War ... took ten years to find his way from Troy to his home on the island of Ithaca". Furthermore, Homer's poem includes violent storms and a shipwreck, giants and monsters, gods and goddesses, a totally different world from Joyce's. Joyce's character Leopold Bloom, "a Jewish advertisement canvasser", corresponds to Odysseus in Homer's epic; Stephen Dedalus, the hero also of Joyce's earlier, largely autobiographical, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, corresponds to Odysseus's son Telemachus; and Bloom's wife Molly corresponds to Penelope, Odysseus's wife, who waited twenty years for him to return.

List of Free eBook content :

Part I: Telemachia

Episode 1, Telemachus

Episode 2, Nestor

Episode 3, Proteus

Part II: Odyssey

Episode 4, Calypso

Episode 5, Lotus Eaters

Episode 6, Hades

Episode 7, Aeolus

Episode 8, Lestrygonians

Episode 9, Scylla and Charybdis

Episode 10, Wandering Rocks

Episode 11, Sirens

Episode 12, Cyclops

Episode 13, Nausicaa

Episode 14, Oxen of the Sun

Episode 15, Circe

Part III: Nostos

Episode 16, Eumaeus

Episode 17, Ithaca

Episode 18, Penelope