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Ulysses

James Joyce

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Across a day in Dublin, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom move through streets, workplaces, conversations, and private memories. Ordinary errands open onto questions of family, loss, desire, and belonging. The novel’s changing forms make the city an environment experienced through language as much as through physical movement.

18 sections265,037 wordsAbout 20 h 5 min
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About Ulysses

The difficulty and pleasure lie partly in adjusting attention as each episode changes its methods. A sound, advertisement, remembered phrase, or bodily sensation may redirect a thought without explanation. Read for recurring details before demanding that every reference become transparent, and compare the public speech of a scene with the interior associations that give it a different emotional scale.

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Follow recurring sounds, memories, and bodily details as the changing narrative forms transform an ordinary Dublin day into multiple kinds of experience.

This reading edition contains 265,037 words in 18 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: James Joyce. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

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Contents

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  1. [ 1 ]33 min
  2. [ 2 ]21 min
  3. [ 3 ]26 min
  4. — II — — [ 4 ]27 min
  5. [ 5 ]30 min
  6. [ 6 ]50 min
  7. [ 7 ]46 min
  8. [ 8 ]58 min
  9. [ 9 ]54 min
  10. [ 10 ]57 min
  11. [ 11 ]56 min
  12. [ 12 ]97 min
  13. [ 13 ]77 min
  14. [ 14 ]93 min
  15. [ 15 ]174 min
  16. — III — — [ 16 ]104 min
  17. [ 17 ]103 min
  18. [ 18 ]110 min

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This edition contains the complete English literary text, with 18 sections and 265,037 words. This reading edition preserves the checked English text and its section order. No study notes have been added.

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