Facts about James Joyce's Ulysses

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   A landmark obscenity ruling by U.S. Judge John Woolsey in 1933 finally allowed James Joyce's Ulysses to be legally published in America.

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   Joyce structured James Joyce's Ulysses across 18 episodes, each loosely corresponding to a chapter in Homer's ancient Greek epic the Odyssey.

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   The novel's stream-of-consciousness technique is most famously displayed in Molly Bloom's concluding monologue, which runs for dozens of pages with almost no punctuation.

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   Serialized in the American literary magazine The Little Review, James Joyce's Ulysses faced an obscenity trial in 1921 that led to its suppression in the United States.

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   Published in 1922, James Joyce's Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin on June 16, 1904.

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