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Ulysses (Dramatised) [Audio Download]

by James Joyce (Author), Stephen Rea (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 7 hours and 25 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd
  • Audible Release Date: 9 Jan 2012
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006WCH0K8
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (122 customer reviews)

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The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother's deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of 'her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my soul.' Timelessly evocative, Ulysses is far more than the story of Stephen Dedalus' journey through Dublin.

It is a huge, rich portrayal of human life. In this magnificent, highly accessible, part reading part dramatisation - which includes the famous Molly Bloom soliloquy - the power and truth of Joyce's vision is as potent as ever. Ulysses stars Stephen Rea and Sinead Cusack, with an introduction by Seamus Heaney.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Like many, I have tried reading the book and found it quite tough.Jim Norton makes the text come to life and team with unforgettable characters. His voice is an extraordinary instrument capable of conveying every emotional nuance and moments of great humour. His reading is an amazing tour de force.He has an inexhaustible range of voices in all registers from velvety bass to falsetto. He conveys the multilayered prose with complete ease deploying many voices to convey a sense of place, inner thoughts and an astonishing cast of characters, each with a unique and distinctive timbre, register and accent.Bloom emerges as a deeply sympathetic and vulnerable human being.
Marcella Riordan is also marvellous as Molly. She is vividly realised and her soliloquy becomes a fascinating and erotic experience. Despite their considerable length, I have already enjoyed these discs several times and find each repetition more illuminating.I now understand why this book has achieved its legendary status. This reading is, perhaps, the most remarkable piece of storytelling I have ever heard.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Ulysses was first published in 1922 and has since been recognized as a masterpiece of world literature - albeit one full of typos. The book was first printed in France, and its printers, faced with a difficult text in a language they didn't understand, allowed many small typing errors to make their way onto the page. The edition featured here is the result of a concerted effort to remove as many of these errors as possible. How well it succeeds in doing so has been the subject of much scholarly debate in recent years.

From its first appearance in the 1980s this edition was referred to as the "corrected text" and as such it has attracted much attention; several of its "corrections" have been called into question by Joycean scholars. However in my opinion -- and I am a Ulysses fan, not a professional expert -- it remains one of the better editions available.

It's fair to say that most readers need not worry about the particular edition of Ulysses they read. The typos that persist in different editions are insignificant when compared to the deliberate inventions and irregularities of the author, and the strength and beauty of the novel shine through regardless of the occasional misspelling. However there are now more editions of Ulysses available than ever, and in my humble opinion it's worth taking five minutes to check out the attributes of edition that you might buy. (There is one edition for example that I wouldn't touch with a long pole.) This edition has received its bouquets and brickbats in the last couple of decades but I think it's definitely worth considering.

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42 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Twenty years after 2 Feb 2003
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Format:Paperback
I'm just completing a re-reading of Ulysses twenty years after reading it as a student, and I'm amazed at how much I'm enjoying it. Yes, it's difficult and packed with allusions to literature, religion and philosophy that I've no idea about. But the sheer poetry of the writing, the humour and the inclusive passion for experience and existence, thought and emotion, have carried me over the difficult passages. 80 years after it was written there's still nothing to compare with Ulysses in its daring, scope and formal experimentation. If you want to understand the modern novel at all, start here.
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Still worth reading the book
This is a great introduction to what might seem too much of a challenge to the reader. You are gripped from the start of disk 1. Read more
Published 9 days ago by C. J. Tyler
Whole chapters missing in Kindle Free version
Presumably, this is why it is free? I absolutely love James Joyce's method of writing especially the internal dialogue of the main character but there are at least two early... Read more
Published 27 days ago by Heather
Another big book
This is a big book and if you read it and tell other people you have read it then you can pretend to be sophisticated and fit in if you find yourself in the midst of a bunch of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by The Book Reader
A realistic chance at understanding the story?
Like most people I've read my share of classics, but I've never quite mustered up the courage to read Ulysses or The Illiad, so when the audio book became available I decided this... Read more
Published 1 month ago by GR
Remember it's not what Joyce intended
The quality of this production is about as good as you could get, as you would expect from the BBC. It is an adaptation though, and not what the author intended. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Deep Reader
A well-made dramatization
I tried James Joyce, I really did, many years ago. I tried to read Finnegans Wake. Anthony Burgess' introduction to the edition I read probably didn't help as he took many, many... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Taliesin_ttlg
The only way to start
I, like most people, have "wanted" to read Ulysses for a while but every time I picked it up it brought a darkening cloud over my brain. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Martin Mcauley
Fabulous dramatisation of possibly the greatest novel ever written-...
James Joyce is a difficult author? Really? The trick to understanding Joyce is to LISTEN to him. His playful ear for language, the puns, the way words sound and resonate, comes to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by M. W. Hatfield
Reader beware - this book does not contain Greek myths
I ordered this book expecting a myth about a Greek God, instead what I got was an extraordinarily long account of one day in Dublin. Read more
Published 2 months ago by wendy jones
Not student friendly
This is a particularly difficult text and the way this book is organised is, to say the least, particularly difficult. Read more
Published 2 months ago by montysol
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