Facts about Ulysses

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   Published in Paris by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Ulysses first appeared in print on February 2, 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday.

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   Each of the 18 episodes in Ulysses corresponds to a chapter of Homer's Odyssey, a structural framework Joyce outlined in his Linati schema.

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   Leopold Bloom's internal monologue comprises approximately 40 percent of Ulysses' 732 pages, establishing stream-of-consciousness as the novel's dominant narrative technique.

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   Over 270,000 copies of Ulysses were sold in its first century following the 1922 publication, despite initial obscenity bans across multiple countries.

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   In James Joyce's Ulysses, the entire 732-page novel takes place over a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland.

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