James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) is considered to be one of the most challenging books in the English language. The book is stylistically dense and laden with symbolism and allusions to Irish history and literature. Structurally, it is based on Homer’s Odyssey, an ancient Greek epic that follows the wanderings of its hero, Odysseus (Ulysses), after the Trojan War. However, it is set in Dublin in a single day in 1904. The novel is famous for its use of interior monologue and stream of consciousness to reveal the innermost thoughts and feelings of its characters as they live hour by hour.
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