{"product_id":"ulysses-8","title":"Ulysses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not ''what is a novel?'', but what can a novel be?  \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e is the answer''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrick McGuinness from his preface to \u003ci\u003eUlysses: The Restored Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing ''obscene'' content, \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000 copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922. A subsequent printing was impounded by US customs and for a period the novel was famed for its notoriety rather than its literary achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike its author, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e exists in a complicated push-pull relationship with its language - English - and its setting - Ireland. Joyce returns to the themes that had preoccupied him in previous works, including nationalism and empire, religion, identity and sex in a novel which gloriously brings Dublin on June 16th 1904 to the page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition of\u003ci\u003e Ulysses\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Restored Text\u003c\/i\u003e includes the revisions that Joyce made to the novel during his lifetime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314855420286,"sku":"NW9781529405538","price":12.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529405538.jpg?v=1778714596","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/ulysses-8","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}