Ulysses

June 16, 1904. Leopold Bloom walks through Dublin — to work, to a funeral, to a pub, to a beach, toward home — and in doing so becomes one of the most fully realized characters in the history of the novel. James Joyce's Ulysses maps a single ordinary day onto the structure of Homer's Odyssey, following Bloom, his wife Molly, and the young writer Stephen Dedalus through a Dublin rendered in langua...