A new, annotated students' edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, based on the original 1922 text For James Joyce, literature is 'the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'.Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerisation, legal action and bitter controversy.An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. A new edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, using the original 1922 text - now the preferred text of Joyce's masterwork - this annotated Student Edition includes extensive notes, line numbers and an introduction by world-renowned Joycean scholar, Andrew Gibson.