 Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature.He thought about calling his short-story collection "Dubliners" "Ulysses in Dublin", but the idea grew from a story written in 1906, to a "short book" in 1907, to the vast novel he began in 1914.The action of the novel moves from one side of Dublin Bay to the other, opening in Sandycove to the South of the city and closing on Howth Head to the North.