Molly Bloom's Soliloquy
Molly Bloom's Soliloquy

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781843796251

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Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses is a languorous internal monologue, in which the passionate wife of Leopold Bloom meditates on love and life. While Bloom sleeps beside her (head to toe), Molly recalls her many infidelities, including the energetic sexual encounter enjoyed that very afternoon. Though difficult to read straight from the page, Marcella Riordan's beautiful reading of this passage brings out all the wit and passion of one of the finest passages of writing in modern literature.

Bloomsday 100
Bloomsday 100

Author: Morris Beja

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2009-10-25

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0813043212

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June 16, 2004, was the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains the best, most provocative readings of Ulysses presented at the conference. The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include nineteenth-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.

yes I said yes I will Yes.
yes I said yes I will Yes.

Author: Nola Tully

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-05-19

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0307549917

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On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904—Bloomsday, as it has come to be known—Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day’s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce’s novel of the century, Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes offers a priceless gathering of what’s been said about Ulysses since the extravagant praise and withering condemnation that first greeted it upon its initial publication. From the varied appraisals of such Joyce contemporaries as William Butler Yeats (“It is an entirely new thing. . . . He has certainly surpassed in intensity any novelist of our time”) and Virginia Woolf (“Never did I read such tosh”), to excerpts from Tennessee Williams’ term paper “Why Ulysses is Boring” and assorted wit, praise, parody, caricature, photographs, anecdotes, bon mots, and reminiscence, this treasury of Bloomsiana is a lively and winning tribute to the most famous day in literature.

Ulysses and Us
Ulysses and Us

Author: Declan Kiberd

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393339093

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Offering an audacious new take on Joyce's classic modern novel "Ulysses," Kiberd argues the novel is not an esoteric tome for the scholarly few but rather a work written both about and for the common person, and explains how it can teach readers to live better lives.

Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy

Author: David Sheff

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780618683352

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Sheff's story tells of his teenage son's addiction to meth, in this real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the family's gradual emergence into hope.

The Female Narrator in the British Novel
The Female Narrator in the British Novel

Author: L. Sternlieb

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 9781349429806

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The Female Narrator in the British Novel studies first-person narratives and demonstrates that how a woman tells her story is crucial to our understanding of its content, for a novel's mode of narration frequently undermines its ostensible plot. Analyzing relationships between the sexes in terms of battles for narrative authority, Sternlieb argues for a rethinking of the history of the marriage plot.