The Most Dangerous Book
The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 26, 2015
Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction “The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . .
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- Genres
- Books & Reading, British & Irish Literary Criticism, Writers' Lives
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, May 26, 2015
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Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction “The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing.
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Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to the book’s landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, The Most Dangerous Book is a gripping examination of how the world came to say Yes to Ulysses.
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| Writers' Lives | 45% |
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| Books & Reading | 43% |
| British & Irish Literary Criticism | 35% |
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Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- British & Irish Literary Criticism
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Kevin Birmingham
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- May 26, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives