Ulysses
James Joyce ยท 1914
How long does it take to read Ulysses?
About 14 hours 43 minutes
736 pages at 50 pages an hour. 30 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.
How long does it take to read Ulysses?
Ulysses is 736 pages, so it takes about 14 hours 43 minutes to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 21 hours; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 10 hours 31 minutes.
How many days to read Ulysses at 20 minutes a day?
About 45 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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