This is a novel that needs no introduction, but we will give it
a short one anyway. Published in serial format between 1918 and
1920, James Joyce’s Ulysses was initially reviled by many and
banned in the US and UK until the 1930s. Today, it’s widely
considered a classic in modernist literature, and The Modern
Library went so far as to call it the most important English-
language novel published during the 20th century. Although
chronicling one ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in
1904 Dublin, Ulysses is no small work. It sprawls over 750
pages, using over 250,000 words, and takes hours to read aloud.
That you will find out when you download the free audio book
made available by Archive.org. You can stream the audio from
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