Ulysses

James Joyce

Set over the course of a single day in Dublin on June 16, 1904, this modernist masterpiece follows Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through their ordinary yet profound experiences. Joyce's stream-of-consciousness technique and frank treatment of sexuality and bodily functions led US authorities to ban the novel as obscene from 1922 until a landmark 1933 court ruling overturned the ban.