' Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublin the 16th June 1904 & what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus Leopold Bloom & his wife Molly Ulysses is a monument to the human condition It has survived censorship controversy & legal action & even been deemed blasphemous but remains an undisputed modernist classic ceaselessly inventive garrulous funny sorrowful vulgar lyrical & ultimately redemptive It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'' The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted & from which none of us can escape' T S Eliot' Intoxicating a towering work in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare' Guardian