New Bloomsday Book

<p>Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to <em>Ulysses</em>. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which without help it might have taken several readings to achieve.</p><p><em>The New Bloomsday Book</em> is a crystal clear page-by-page line-by-line running commentary on the plot of <em>Ulysses</em> which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time.</p><p>To ensure that Blamires' classic work will remain useful to new readers this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions of <em>Ulysses</em>: the Oxford University Press 'World Classics' (1993) the Penguin 'Twentieth-Century Classics' (1992) and the Gabler 'Corrected Text' (1986) editions.</p>