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"When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged--none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company. But the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous and influential book of the century comes with steep costs"--Provided by publisher.

Argues that James Joyce's classic "Ulysses" is not meant only for a scholarly few, but a work based on the lives of ordinary people that offers a humane vision of a more tolerant world.

Critical essays published during the last twenty-five years on Joyce's celebrated novel "Ulysses.".

Analyzes "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and argues that Fitzgerald used the same methods James Joyce used in "Ulysses," such as using realistic characters as biblical parodies, developing each chapter using a different duality in life, and providing social criticism with sub-themes.

Presents eleven critical essays published between 1959 and 2001 on James Joyce's "Ulysses," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by literary critic Harold Bloom.