James Joyce’smost celebrated novel, and one of the most highly regarded novels in the English language, records the events of one day—Thursday the 16th of June, 1904—in the city of Dublin.
The reader is first reintroduced to Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of Joyce’s previous novelA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Stephen is now living in a rented Martello tower and working at a school, having completed his B.A....