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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce´s Ulysses
Kevin Birmingham
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Description for The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce´s Ulysses
Paperback. SUNDAY TIMES 2014 LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR! The extraordinary and exhilarating story of James Joyce's 15-year battle to publish his masterpiece, Ulysses. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 430.
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language was illegal to sell, advertise or import. Its author lived in exile; his supporters on the edge of the law. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the painful yet exhilarating story of how Joyce's ULYSSES was conceived, written, published, burned, acclaimed and excoriated before taking its place as a masterpiece of world literature.
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language was illegal to sell, advertise or import. Its author lived in exile; his supporters on the edge of the law. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the painful yet exhilarating story of how Joyce's ULYSSES was conceived, written, published, burned, acclaimed and excoriated before taking its place as a masterpiece of world literature.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784080730
SKU
V9781784080730
Shipping Time
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99-5
About Kevin Birmingham
Kevin Birmingham is a lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard. He was a bartender in a Dublin pub featured in ULYSSES for one day before he was unceremoniously fired. This is his first book.
Reviews for The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce´s Ulysses
Riveting... populated with enough larger-than-life characters and twists to make a fiction writer envious'
Matthew Pearl A wonderfully eye-opening read... superb'
Frank Delaney Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life
Louis Menand Kevin Birmingham has a deep love of Ulysses, and knows everything about Joyce. His learned book is a gripping page-tuner
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Matthew Pearl A wonderfully eye-opening read... superb'
Frank Delaney Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life
Louis Menand Kevin Birmingham has a deep love of Ulysses, and knows everything about Joyce. His learned book is a gripping page-tuner
A ... Read more