Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century Anthony Burgess, Observer\n\nFollowing  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 Joyces belief that literature  is the eternal  affirmation of the spirit of man.\n \nThe 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\n \nIntoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare Guardian