App Detail » Joyce's Ulysses: A Guide

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App Description

Ulysses: one of the greatest books ever written, and one of the most challenging.

JOYCE’S ULYSSES: A GUIDE opens the door to this 20th-century classic. At the core of the app is the unabridged text with 800 annotations. Encountered a difficulty? Just tap for an explanation!

The award-winning abridged recording of Ulysses by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan is also contained within, as are recordings of various songs and arias mentioned in the book.

Background material includes the complete text of Homer’s Odyssey, in the new translation by Ian Johnston, alongside an article explaining Ulysses’ connection to it; a biography of Joyce; and articles on the novel’s turbulent publishing history, its translated editions, and the worldwide scholarly industry that has arisen around it.

This is the perfect vehicle for getting to grips with Ulysses: anybody can now demystify ‘the ineluctable modality of the visible’ and delve into the delights of this outstanding work.


FEATURES
· Unabridged text with 800 individual annotations immediately accessible.
· Abridged, award-winning recording read by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan: the perfect introduction to the work.
· Abridged text, also with individual annotations; can be read while listening.
· Introduction to the novel by Joyce scholar Derek Attridge.
· Background on James Joyce and the publishing history of Ulysses.
· Recording of a live talk – ‘James Joyce’s Women’ – given at the Oxford Literary Festival.
· Many extracts of music mentioned in Ulysses, from Mozart to traditional Irish ballads.
· Complete text of Homer’s Odyssey in the new verse translation by Ian Johnston.
· Further Reading.
· Photographs of Joyce and of Dublin landmarks.

App Changes

• June 01, 2014 Initial release
• November 07, 2016 Price decrease: $8.99 -> $7.99
• June 14, 2019 New version 1.0.1