James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904 It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature & was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats T S Eliot & Ernest Hemingway Scandalously frank wittily erudite mercurially eloquent resourcefully comic & generously humane Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience