Patrick Hastings - The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses

Category: Literature, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Arts & Entertainment

Written by The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
Read by Patrick Hastings
Format: M4B

The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
By Patrick Hastings
Narrated by Patrick Hastings

Release date: 04-25-23
Language: English
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Categories: Literature & Fiction

About this listen

In The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses, Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers and listeners of Joyce’s magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this guidebook maintains a closeness to the original text and supports the first-time reader or listener of Ulysses with the information needed to successfully finish and appreciate the novel. Deftly weaving together spirited plot summaries, helpful interpretive analyses, scholarly criticism, and explanations of historical and biographical context, Hastings makes Joyce’s famously intimidating novel more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. He unpacks each chapter of Ulysses with episode guides, which offer pointed and readable explanations of what occurs in the text. He also deals adroitly with many of the puzzles Joyce hoped would “keep the professors busy for centuries.”

Full of practical resources, this is an invaluable first resource about a work of art that celebrates the strength of spirit required to endure the trials of everyday existence. The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses is perfect for anyone undertaking a listening or reading of Joyce’s novel, whether as a student, a member of a reading group, or a lover of literature finally crossing this novel off the bucket list.

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