ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - circa 1917: (FILE PHOTO) The novel 'Ulysses' by Irish author James Joyce (1882-1941) was first published on February 02, 1922 by Sylvia Beach from her Shakespeare And Company bookstore in Paris. Please refer to the following profile on Getty Images Archival for further imagery. http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=107736210&EditorialProduct=Archival&esource=maplinARC_uki_jan12 Portrait of Irish author James Joyce (1882 - 1941) wearing a hat, pince-nez eyeglasses, a jacket and a bow tie, circa 1917 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The books of James Joyce, along with Middlemarch and War and Peace, were among the titles that many vowed to read when the UK was plunged into its first coronavirus lockdown. Almost two years later, we now know that most of us filled all that time indoors with Netflix and Zoom quizzes rather than catching up on lengthy classics (apart from the author David Mitchell, who did read Ulysses in 2020). But with this month marking the centenary of Ulysses and 140 years since Joyce’s birth, perhaps now really is the time to familiarise or re-familiarise yourself with the influential modernist writer.
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