The greatest novel of the twentieth century now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition Following the events of one single day in Dublin the 16th of June 1904 and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly Ulysses is a monument to the human condition It has survived censorship controversy and legal action and even been deemed blasphemous but remains an undisputed modernist classic ceaselessly inventive garrulous funny sorrowful vulgar lyrical and ultimately redemptive It confirms Joyces belief that literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man