Ulysses
Jmes Joyce
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce is one of two of the greatest works of fiction of the twentieth century (the second being the multi-volume In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust). Its greatness is only exceeded by the number of readers who have shied away from attempting to read this monumental achievement, because of its reputation for extreme difficulty. This is unfortunate. Although a few of the eighteen episodes that comprise the book are difficult, much of the book, by far the greater portion, is readily accessible. Modernism was laced with at least one conservative streak: Its proponents endorsed the notion of looking backward to the classics so as to bring the unalloyed gold of their content forward, to make them new in association with the stylistic innovations of post-World War I Europe. Joyce based his story of Leopold Bloom, an advertisement canvasser in Dublin, and Stephen Daedalus, the artist as a young man, on Homer’s Odyssey. In episodes spanning one day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, and corresponding to eighteen episodes of the Greek Classic, Ulysses (the Latin translation of the name Odysseus) is filled with references and allusions employed to create a meta-novel in which the interior thoughts of Bloom, Daedalus and Bloom’s wife, Molly, are set down to describe their subjective as well as a narrator’s objective view of reality. Each of the eighteen episodes use a different and individualized style sufficient to set forth an encyclopedia of the writer’s vast knowledge, focused primarily on an Irishman’s point of view regarding the state of Irish as well as English literature from Beowulf to Modernism. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Product Details
| Read by: | Multiple Readers |
| Length: | 31 hours 16 minutes |
| Type: | Collaborative reading |
| Media: | 2 MP3 CDs |
| Package: | DVD box |
| Item No.: | DB-2001 |
| EAN: | 0683422134173 |
| List Price: | $14.99 |
Credits
Production
Book Coordinator: Hugh McGuire
Meta Coordinator: Hugh McGuire
Artwork
Cover: Photo of Martello Tower, Sandycove, County Dublin and Map of Leopold Bloom's travels on Bloomsday.
DVD Inset: Cover of 1922 first edition and drawing of James Joyce by Djuna Barnes, 1922.
The Recordings
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The Recordings
These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics. The audio files have been lightly edited and have been engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. We spend considerable time and effort to ensure the recordings are free of noise, equalized for maximum listener pleasure, and that tracks are leveled and normalized to provide a consistent listening experience.
Table of Contents
| Track | Episode | Readers | Length |
| Disc One | |||
| 1 | 01 - Episode 1: Telemachus part 1 | Brian | 23:14 |
| 2 | 02 - Episode 1: Telemachus part 2 | Brian | 20:24 |
| 3 | 03 - Episode 2: Nestor | Brian | 27:16 |
| 4 | 04 - Episode 3: Proteus | heyfd | 42:04 |
| 5 | 05 - Episode 4: Calypso | heyfd | 41:14 |
| 6 | 06 - Episode 5: Lotus Eaters | heyfd | 43:51 |
| 7 | 07 - Episode 6: Hades part 1 | heyfd | 36:01 |
| 8 | 08 - Episode 6: Hades part 2 | heyfd | 38:33 |
| 9 | 09 - Episode 7: Aeolus part 1 | heyfd | 29:23 |
| 10 | 10 - Episode 7: Aeolus part 2 | iremonger | 43:45 |
| 11 | 11 - Episode 8: Lestrygonians part 1 | Nathan Jordan | 31:08 |
| 12 | 12 - Episode 8: Lestrygonians part 2 | Nathan Jordan | 37:01 |
| 13 | 13 - Episode 8: Lestrygonians part 3 | Nathan Jordan | 30:59 |
| 14 | 14 - Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis part 1 | Kirsty Leishman | 28:50 |
| 15 | 15 - Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis part 2 | Richard Wallis | 16:48 |
| 16 | 16 - Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis part 3 | Richard Wallis | 32:34 |
| 17 | 17 - Episode 10: Wandering Rocks part 1 | Richard Wallis | 21:08 |
| 18 | 18 - Episode 10: Wandering Rocks part 2 | Richard Wallis | 28:03 |
| 19 | 19 - Episode 10: Wandering Rocks part 3 | Richard Wallis | 32:04 |
| 20 | 20 - Episode 11: Sirens part 1 | iremonger | 34:30 |
| 21 | 21 - Episode 11: Sirens part 2 | LizMourant | 39:38 |
| 22 | 22 - Episode 11: Sirens part 3 | LizMourant | 37:55 |
| 23 | 23 - Episode 12: Cyclops part 1 | penboy7000 | 22:06 |
| 24 | 24 - Episode 12: Cyclops part 2 | penboy7000 | 24:15 |
| 25 | 25 - Episode 12: Cyclops part 3 | iremonger | 26:33 |
| 26 | 26 - Episode 12: Cyclops part 4 | iremonger | 24:50 |
| 27 | 27 - Episode 12: Cyclops part 5 | iremonger | 32:45 |
| 28 | 28 - Episode 13: Nausicaa part 1 | iremonger | 20:15 |
| 29 | 29 - Episode 13: Nausicaa part 2 | Cath Garde | 16:39 |
| 30 | 30 - Episode 13: Nausicaa part 3 | Cath Garde | 16:41 |
| 31 | 31 - Episode 13: Nausicaa part 4 | Grant Hurlock | 37:25 |
| 32 | 32 - Episode 13: Nausicaa part 5 | Grant Hurlock | 43:22 |
| Disc Two | |||
| 33 | 33 - Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun part 1 | Richard Wallis | 26:28 |
| 34 | 34 - Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun part 2 | Richard Wallis | 23:42 |
| 35 | 35 - Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun part 3 | Richard Wallis | 17:50 |
| 36 | 36 - Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun part 4 | Richard Wallis | 23:15 |
| 37 | 37 - Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun part 5 | Richard Wallis | 19:12 |
| 38 | 38 - Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun part 6 | Richard Wallis | 19:51 |
| 39 | 39 - Episode 15: Circe part 1 | Group | 35:02 |
| 40 | 40 - Episode 15: Circe part 2 | Group | 47:33 |
| 41 | 41 - Episode 15: Circe part 3 | Group | 47:56 |
| 42 | 42 - Episode 15: Circe part 4 | Group | 51:33 |
| 43 | 43 - Episode 15: Circe part 5 | Group | 46:43 |
| 44 | 44 - Episode 15: Circe part 6 | Group | 42:40 |
| 45 | 45 - Episode 15: Circe part 7 | Group | 38:28 |
| 46 | 46 - Episode 16: Eumaeus part 1 | Karen | 23:04 |
| 47 | 47 - Episode 16: Eumaeus part 2 | Karen | 23:45 |
| 48 | 48 - Episode 16: Eumaeus part 3 | Karen | 25:41 |
| 49 | 49 - Episode 16: Eumaeus part 4 | Karen | 20:16 |
| 50 | 50 - Episode 16: Eumaeus part 5 | Paul Adams | 25:17 |
| 51 | 51 - Episode 16: Eumaeus part 6 | Maggie Russell | 26:26 |
| 52 | 52 - Episode 17: Ithaca part 1 | John Kooz | 49:02 |
| 53 | 53 - Episode 17: Ithaca part 2 | John Kooz | 45:37 |
| 54 | 54 - Episode 17: Ithaca part 3 | Richard Wallis | 42:18 |
| 55 | 55 - Episode 17: Ithaca part 4 | Richard Wallis | 46:04 |
| 56 | 56 - Episode 18: Penelope part 1 | John Kooz | 24:19 |
| 57 | 57 - Episode 18: Penelope part 2 | taijohn | 22:13 |
| 58 | 58 - Episode 18: Penelope part 3 | mevans | 5:07 |
| 59 | 59 - Episode 18: Penelope part 4 | iremonger | 12:25 |
| 60 | 60 - Episode 18: Penelope part 5 | iremonger | 13:42 |
| 61 | 61 - Episode 18: Penelope part 6 | iremonger | 18:47 |
| 62 | 62 - Episode 18: Penelope part 7 | Arielle Lipshaw | 14:58 |
| 63 | 63 - Episode 18: Penelope part 8 | Arielle Lipshaw | 16:01 |
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