This edition collects five versions of
Ulysses by James Joyce:
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THE FIRST:
Shakespeare & Co., Paris 1922.
[source: the facsimile of the 2002 Dover edition]
THE BEST:
The Odyssey Press, Hamburg, Paris, Bologna 1939 (4th impression)
revised by Stuart Gilbert
THE COMMON:
Random House, New York 1961
corrected and reset
[source: the 1961 Vintage Books paperback reprint]
THE NOTORIOUS:
Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London 1984
A Critical and Synoptic Edition, prepared by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior
THE LAST:
Robotwisdom.com, 2000
by Jorn Barger
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There has never been a reliable text of
Ulysses. The first edition had a lot of mistakes, caused by a French printer without a full command of the English language and overlooked by an author who preferred adding material in the proof sheets. The editions that followed tried to correct these mistakes but introduced others, or just invented their own text [
almost kidding!].
The available paper copies of
Ulysses usually mention which text they use; the myriad of digital editions, on the other hand, rarely specify on which text they are based (The only ‘official’ version, based on the Random House text, which was issued by the Modern Library and is now withdrawn from circulation, is full of scanning mistakes!)—an unbearable situation which comes to an end now, I hope.
As this edition compiles most of the relevant editions of
Ulysses, you can choose which one you want to read, or easily compare the different versions.
I have fully proofed the first four texts against the respective print copies, trying to recreate the source texts accurately, which of course means that all original mistakes are preserved. The fifth was an original digital edition (in which I have restored the original mistakes I had ‘corrected’ for v.2.0 and v.2.1 of the
Complete Works). The formatting follows each of the print editions as closely as possible.
When the Shakespeare & Co. edition was reprinted in 1922 by the Egoist Press, London, it came with a 7-page list of errata. These are indicated as footnotes in the first edition text.
Each text contains the page numbers of the first edition with links to the respective pages of the other four versions, allowing to compare the texts. I understand that these can be considered intrusive, so you will find instructions in the style.css stylesheet to hide all or some of them.
A big thanks to the (non-quaker) librarian who helped me to find the ultra-rare 4th impression of the Odyssey Press edition that was deeply hidden in the catalogue.
This one’s for John Kidd, I guess, whose version still has to see the light of day.
I consider this edition to be finished, so please inform me should you find any deviations from the source texts.
Regards,
pynch.
Update | v.2.0 | 10 Apr 2016
I have added the 13 1/3 chapters of
Ulysses which were published in
The Little Review between March 1918 and December 1920.
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