A Shorter Ulysses: Including Blooms of Dublin and An Introduction to Ulysses

This volume is a major event in both the James Joyce and Anthony Burgess literary annals. It not any marks the first publication of Burgess’s Shorter Ulysses, which was only recently discovered in the Burgess archives, but also the first republication this century of Burgess’s extraordinary musical play Blooms of Dublin, based of course on Ulysses. The play has not been available in print for 38 years. Indeed it was only once performed (but as a radio production) on the centenary of Joyce’s...