Author: BIRMINGHAM, KEVIN
Title: The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Birmingham
Description: London: Head of Zeus 2014. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Physical description; 417 pages. [16] pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405) and index. Summary; An account of the dramatic writing of and fight to publish James Joyce's 'Ulysses' reveals how the now classic book was the subject of a landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933 that overturned key censorship laws. THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade. the book now considered the most important novel in the English language was illegal to sell. advertise or import. Its author lived in exile; his supporters on the edge of the law. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the painful yet exhilarating story of how Joyce's ULYSSES was conceived. written. published. burned. acclaimed and excoriated before taking its place as a masterpiece of world literature. Subjects; Joyce. James 1882-1941. - Ulysses - Criticism. Textual. Joyce. James 1882-1941 - Censorship. Authors and publishers - History - 20th century. Prohibited books - History - 20th century. Law and literature - History - 20th century. Trials (Obscenity) - History - 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English. Irish. Scottish. Welsh. Weight in Kg appr.:

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