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Radio 4,16 Jan 2022,28 mins

Open Book's guide to Ulysses

Open Book

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Open Book takes a close look at Ulysses, by James Joyce which was first published in full in 1922. Chris Power and his guests share their love of the varied language and prose that make Ulysses unique and challenging, and offer tips on how to start reading it, in its centenary year. Chris is joined by award winning Irish novelist Colm Toibin, by Merve Emre, literary critic and associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and by Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States and author of Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey. Reader: Neil McCaul. Book List – Sunday 16 January and Thursday 20 January Ulysses by James Joyce Ulysses Unbound by Terence Killeen Ulysses: A Readers’ Odyssey by Daniel Mulhall The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires Ulysses Unbound by Terence Killeen Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford and Robert Seidman Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Magician by Colm Toibin

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