02356cam a2200421 i 4500 17955665 BJBSDDR 20260716124612.0 ta 131126s2014 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 2013039967 9780143127543 0143127543 17955665 DLC eng DLC rda eng pcc PR 6019 B619m 2014 823/.912 23 Birmingham, Kevin, 1974- 49640 The most dangerous book : the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Birmingham. New York : The Penguin Press, 2014. 417 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom's day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful precision in its pages. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice immediately banned the novel as "obscene, lewd, and lascivious." Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The most dangerous book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce's inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses. Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses Criticism, Textual. Authors and publishers History 20th century. Law and literature History 20th century. Trials (Obscenity) History 20th century. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 0 BK rmza 127776 127776 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-07-16 0 PR 6019 B619m 2014 00000183914 2026-07-16 12:46:53 1 2026-07-16 BK