书名：Ulysses 尤利西斯
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1050L
作者：James Joyce (著), Declan Kiberd (序)
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2000
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141182803
商品尺寸：12.9 x 4.5 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：1040 （以实物为准）

Ulysses《尤利西斯》是爱尔兰意识流文学作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）于1922年出版的长篇小说，是意识流小说的代表作，并被誉为20世纪一百部英文小说之首。作者乔伊斯一反传统的写作方法，使用极为怪诞的手法，展现发生在都柏林一天十八小时中的种种事情，每一小时写一章，末尾一章描写女主人公的性心理，整章只有前后两个标点符号，堪称文学一绝。加以本书因是否属淫书的争论，在西方曾两上法庭，解禁后其影响更大。2000年英美一些重要媒体，一致将本书列为20世纪世界极富影响的名著之一。
本书是企鹅出版的英文原版，含Declan Kiberd所作的序言。全书共分为十八章，内部结构与荷马的《奥德赛》有密切联系。每一章节都有其独特的写作技巧，并对应一个《奥德赛》的故事主题，角色和情节也和《奥德赛》有不同层次的对应。

“Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century”—Anthony Burgess, Observer
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly,Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce’s belief that literature “is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man”.
“The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape”—T. S. Eliot
“Intoxicating... a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare” —Guardian

 Ulysses《尤利西斯》以时间为顺序，描述了主人公，苦闷彷徨的都柏林小市民，广告推销员利奥波德·布卢姆（Leopold Bloom）于1904年6月16日一昼夜之内在都柏林的种种日常经历。乔伊斯将布卢姆在都柏林街头的一日游荡比作奥德修斯的海外十年漂泊，同时刻画了他不忠诚的妻子摩莉以及斯蒂芬寻找精神上的父亲的心理。小说大量运用细节描写和意识流手法构建了一个交错凌乱的时空，语言上形成了一种独特的风格。

詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce, 1882-1941）是20世纪西方富有独创性和影响很大的作家。生于爱尔兰首都都柏林。他一生颠沛流离，辗转于的里雅斯特、罗马、巴黎等地，多以教授英语和为报刊撰稿糊口，又饱受眼疾折磨，到晚年几乎完全失明；但他对文学矢志不渝，勤奋写作，终成一代巨匠。《尤利西斯》是他的代表作。
James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce’s psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.