Catalog / Ulysses
Ulysses
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James Joyce
Leopold Bloom walks Dublin on a single day in 1904, while the novel explores consciousness, language, desire, and city life in a radically experimental form.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Shakespeare and Company
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0679722769
- ISBN-13
- 9780679722762
- ASIN
- 0679722769
Why was Ulysses challenged?
Ulysses by James Joyce is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1918. Copies were burned in the United States during early-twentieth-century obscenity campaigns.
The catalog records the scope as distribution. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was Ulysses banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · Distribution
Copies were burned in the United States during early-twentieth-century obscenity campaigns.
A historical censorship case; the book is legally available today.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is Ulysses banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1918. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was Ulysses challenged?
- Copies were burned in the United States during early-twentieth-century obscenity campaigns.
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