Ulysses - Gabler Edition [0]
ULYSSES
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
I: The Telemachiad
Telemachus
Nestor
Proteus
II: The Odyssey
Calypso
Lotus Eaters
Hades
Aeolus
Lestrygonians
Scylla and Charybdis
Wandering Rocks
Sirens
Cyclops
Nausicaa
Oxen of the Sun
Circe
III: The Nostos
Eumaeus
Ithaca
Penelope
AFTERWORD
NOTES
REFERENCES
ULYSSES
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Chamber Music
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Exile
(Jonathan Cape)
Pomes Penyeach
Finnegans Wake
(Faber & Faber)
Stephen Hero
(posthumous: Jonathan Cape)
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JAMES JOYCE
ULYSSES
EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER
WITH WOLFHARD STEPPE AND
CLAUS MELCHIOR
AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL GRODEN
THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON
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This edition published by The Bodley Head 1986
Reprinted 1989, 1993
Reading text copyright © The Trustees of the Estate of James Joyce, 1984
Afterword copyright © Michael Groden 1993
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PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF
ULYSSES
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February 1922: 1,000 numbered copies
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October 1922: 2,000 numbered copies,
of which 500 copies were detained
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June 1964: critical and synoptic edition
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THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON
1986: The Corrected Text
edited by Ham Walter Gabler, with a
Preface by Richard Ellmann
Also published by Penguin Books as
a paperback Student's Edition
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This edition follows exactly
the line divisions of the critical edition
(Garland, New York, 1984).
Line numbers are provided to facilitate
reference. The lines of each episode
are numbered separately.
The episode number is given at
the foot of each page.
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In a letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, James Joyce wrote of the first edition of Ulysses, ‘I am extremely irritated by all the printer’s errors. Are these to be perpetuated in future editions? I hope not.’
Joyce’s hope was not fulfilled until 1986, when a critical edition of the work appeared, the fruit of seven years’ textual research by a team of scholars led by Professor Hans Walter Gabler of the Department of English Philology at the University of Munich; they had returned to the original manuscripts, drafts and proofs of the 1922 first edition in order to reconstruct as closely as possible the creative process by which Joyce wrote Ulysses. Corrections to thousands of ‘accidentals’ of punctuation, spelling and emphasis illuminate previously obscure passages and throw the theme of the most significant novel of the twentieth century into sharp relief.