The Most Dangerous Book : The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses (Hardcover)

from cmlloyd67

One of the best books that I've read in the past two years. On the surface it appears to be about the big 1930s censorship case against Ulysses, which had been banned for 20 years due to obscenity. The case basically changes US and later UK censorship laws and how Western culture viewed obscenity...

from muddyboy

The long and twisted history of Ulysses by James Joyce. Over the years some have thought it a masterpiece, some nonsense and some pornography but everyone seems to have an opinion. This well researched book tells us the story of this controversial book and its author. It took years to get printed...

from dono421846

Birmingham weaves an engrossing tale of Joyce, his creative process, the writing and publication of Ulysses, and finally the battle against its censorship. Every personality is fleshed out in detail, but the text never becomes tedious or pedantic. There's something here for just about everyone. W...

from CrowVoice

An adventure story of Modernism with Ulysses, the book, as hero.

from bostonbibliophile

Really interesting book on the writing and publishing of Ulysses, and also functions as a biography of James Joyce. Mostly it's the story of censorship and the growth of the First Amendment into what we understand it to be today, and how changes in writing and literature precipitated the legal ch...