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Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide toUlysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday Bookis a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot ofUlysseswhich illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time. To ensure that Blamires' classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions ofUlysses: the Oxford University Press 'World Classics' (1993), the Penguin 'Twentieth-Century Classics' (1992), and the Gabler 'Corrected Text' (1986) editions. | The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters