Tag: Books

The joy of a jumbled bookcase

I sit and contemplate our muddled bookshelf and such a joy rises in my heart that I can do nothing more than pull out a book and read.

Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece

In the spring of 1921, Paris bookseller Sylvia Beach boasted about her plans to publish a novel she deemed a masterpiece that would be “ranked among the classics in English literature”.

“Ulysses is going to make my place famous,” she wrote of James Joyce’s acclaimed and challenging novel, written over seven years in three cities depicting the events of a single day in Dublin.