Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, and is one of the most important books in modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage of character Leopold Bloom through Dublin during June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (translated into Ulysses in Latin), the hero of Homer's Odyssey. Ulysses totals about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words, divided into 18 "episodes". Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—full of puns, parodies, and allusions, as well as its rich characterizations and broad humor, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Ulysses on project Gutenburg
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