This is a novel that needs no introduction, but we will give it a short one anyway. Published in serial format between 1918 and 1920, James Joyce’s Ulysses was initially reviled by many and banned in the US and UK until the 1930s. Today, it’s widely considered a classic in modernist literature, and The Modern Library went so far as to call it the most important English-language novel published during the 20th century. Although chronicling one ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in 1904 Dublin, Ulysses is no small work. It sprawls over 750 pages, using over 250,000 words, and takes hours to read aloud. That you will find out when you download the free audio book made available by Archive.org. You can stream the audio from this page, or download a big zip file right here.
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I enjoy your site. Especially enjoyed the footage of James Joyce.
This is mind bending…down loading Joyce right now…my brain cells are dancing with delight as I envision what is next…
Fabulous first chapter of Moby Dick read by Tilda-