james joyce
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The summer evening had begun to fold the world in its mysterious embrace. Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea. The three girl friends were seated on the rocks, enjoying the evening scene and the air which was fresh but not too chilly.
Ulysses (novel)/Chapter 13
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce . It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature , [ 1 ] it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". [ 2 ] "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." [ 3 ] Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904 (the day of Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle ). [ 4 ] Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus , the hero of Homer 's poem Odyssey , and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope , and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus ).