JOYCE, J.: Ulysses (Unabridged)
Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day—16 June 1904—in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing—and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer’s Odyssey, internal thoughts—Joyce’s famous stream of consciousness—give physical reality extra colour and perspective. This long-awaited unabridged recording of James Joyce’s Ulysses is released to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of ‘Bloomsday’. Regarded by many as the single most important novel of the twentieth century, the abridged recording by Norton and Riordan released in 1994, the first year of Naxos AudioBooks, is a proven bestseller. Now the two return—having recorded most of Joyce’s other work—in a newly recorded unabridged production directed by Joyce expert Roger Marsh.
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Riordan, Marcella (Reader)
| 1 | 'Stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...' | 07:39 |
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| 3 | 'He walked off quickly round the parapet. Stephen stood at his post, gazing over the calm sea towards the headland.' | 06:53 |
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| 4 | 'The key scraped round harshly twice and, when the heavy door had been set ajar, welcome light and bright air entered.' | 07:44 |
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| 10 | 'A hasty step over the stone porch and in the corridor. Blowing out his rare moustache Mr Deasy halted at the table.' | 06:58 |
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| 6 | 'Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself.' | 06:53 |
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| 8 | 'He clasped his hands between his knees and, satisfied, sent his vacant glance over their faces.' | 05:59 |
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| 4 | 'PINEAPPLE ROCK, LEMON PLATT, BUTTER SCOTCH. A SUGARSTICKY girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a Christian brother.' | 05:33 |
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| 9 | 'Of the twoheaded octopus, one of whose heads is the head upon which the ends of the world have forgotten to come...' | 06:49 |
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| 1 | 'John Eglinton touched the foil. Come, he said. Let us hear what you have to say of Richard and Edmund.' | 06:01 |
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| 3 | 'The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J., reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps.' | 08:46 |
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| 8 | 'Mr Bloom turned over idly pages of The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, then of Aristotle's Masterpiece.' | 03:41 |
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| 9 | 'The lacquey by the door of Dillon's auctionrooms shook his handbell twice again and viewed himself in the chalked mirror of the cabinet.' | 08:50 |
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| 10 | 'Stephen Dedalus watched through the webbed window the lapidary's fingers prove a timedulled chain.' | 05:34 |
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| 12 | 'The youngster will be all right, Martin Cunningham said, as they passed out of the Castleyard gate.' | 04:41 |
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| 2 | 'William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Hesseltine, drove out after luncheon from...' | 07:58 |
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| 4 | 'Yes, bronze from anear, by gold from afar, heard steel from anear, hoofs ring from afar, and heard steelhoofs ringhoof ringsteel.' | 06:29 |
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| 8 | 'Miss Douce, engaging, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, George Lidwell, gentleman, entering. Good afternoon.' | 07:44 |
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| 10 | 'Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.' | 07:05 |
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| 4 | 'I WAS JUST PASSING THE TIME OF DAY WITH OLD TROY OF THE DMP at the corner of Arbour Hill there...' | 08:32 |
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| 5 | 'So we turned into Barney Kiernan's and there sure enough was the citizen up in the corner...' | 05:22 |
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| 8 | 'So they started talking about capital punishment and of course Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of...' | 04:24 |
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| 10 | 'So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that...' | 05:47 |
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| 11 | 'So Bon Doran comes lurching around asking Bloom to tell Mrs Dignam he was sorry for her trouble...' | 10:15 |
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| 3 | 'Those are nice things, says the citizen, coming over here to Ireland filing the country with bugs.' | 06:17 |
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| 4 | 'As treeless as Portugal we'll be soon, says John Wyse, or Heliogoland with its one tree if something is not done to reaforrest the land.' | 06:38 |
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| 5 | 'But, says Bloom, isn't discipline the same everywhere? I mean wouldn't it be the same here if you put force against force?' | 05:59 |
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| 6 | 'And I belong to a race too, says Bloom, that is hated and persecuted. Also now. This very moment. This instant.' | 06:10 |
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| 9 | 'And begob he got as far as the door and they holding him and he bawls out of him: - Three cheers for Israel!' | 08:32 |
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| 11 | 'Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance, was in very truth as fair...' | 12:10 |
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| 1 | 'Edy Boardman asked Tommy Caffrey was he done and he said yes, so then she buttoned up his little knickerbockers for him and told him to...' | 06:56 |
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| 3 | 'The exasperating little brats of twins began to quarrel again and Jacky threw the ball out towards the sea and they both ran after it.' | 05:26 |
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| 4 | 'Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum ergo and Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament...' | 08:35 |
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| 5 | 'Canon O'Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes...' | 07:28 |
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| 7 | 'There she is with them down there for the fireworks. My fireworks. Up like a rocket, down like a stick.' | 07:27 |
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| 8 | 'Wonder how is she feeling in that region. Shame all put on before third person. More put out about a hole in her stocking.' | 07:52 |
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| 9 | 'All quiet on Howth now. The distant hills seem. Where we. The rhododendrons. I am a fool perhaps.' | 09:34 |
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| 2 | 'The man that was come into the house then spoke to the nursing-woman and he asked her how it fared with the woman that lay there in...' | 07:01 |
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| 3 | 'For they were right witty scholars. And he heard their aresouns each gen other as touching birth and righteousness...' | 10:02 |
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| 4 | 'To be short this passage was scarce by when Master Dixon of Mary in Eccles, goodly grinning, asked young Stephen what was the reason...' | 06:58 |
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| 6 | 'With this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table to say how the letter was in that night's gazette and he made a show to find it...' | 08:25 |
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| 7 | 'Our worthy acquaintance, Mr Malachi Mulligan, now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied...' | 06:17 |
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| 8 | 'Here the listener, who was none other than the Scotch students, a little fume of a fellow, blond as tow...' | 09:59 |
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| 9 | 'Accordingly he broke his mind to his neighbour, saying that, to express his notion of the thing, his opinion...' | 09:10 |
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| 10 | 'But Malachias' tale began to freeze them with horror. He conjured up the scene before them.' | 05:03 |
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| 2 | 'However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise about him being in some description of a doldrums or other mesmerised...' | 09:47 |
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| 6 | 'The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green...' | 10:39 |
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| 10 | '(Bloom passes. Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call from lanes, doors, corners.)' | 08:34 |
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| 4 | '(The portly figure of John O'Connell, caretaker, stands forth, holding a bunch of keys tied with crape.)' | 06:45 |
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| 5 | 'LATE LORD MAYOR HARRINGTON: (In scarlet robe with mace, gold mayoral chain and large white silk scaft.)' | 08:16 |
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| 8 | '(Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls...)' | 08:43 |
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| 1 | '(A skeleton judashand strangles the light. The green light wanes to mauve. The gasjet wails whistling.)' | 09:42 |
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| 3 | 'VIRAG: (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips.) She sold lovephiltres...' | 07:17 |
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| 5 | 'BELLO: (Coaxingly.) Come, ducky dear. I want a word with you, darling, just to administer correction.' | 08:01 |
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| 6 | 'BELLO: (Whistles loudly.) Say! What was the most revolting piece of obscenity in all your career of crime?' | 07:22 |
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| 7 | 'A VOICE: Swear! (Bloom clenches his fists and crawls forward, a bowie knife between his teeth.)' | 07:27 |
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| 1 | '(Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there...)' | 07:02 |
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| 2 | '(A dark horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane moonfoaming, his eyeballs stars.)' | 07:11 |
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| 5 | 'DOLLY GRAY: (From here balcony waves her handkerchief, giving the sign of the heroine of Jericho.)' | 06:40 |
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| 9 | 'Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant...' | 08:22 |
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| 1 | 'Mr Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure, where, prior to then, he had rarely, if ever,...' | 04:56 |
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| 2 | 'A silence ensued till Mr Bloom for agreeableness' sake just felt like asking him whether it was for a marksmanship competition like...' | 05:00 |
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| 3 | 'Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark.' | 08:50 |
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| 5 | 'The face of a streetwalker, glazed and haggard under a black straw hat, peered askew round the door of the shelter...' | 09:35 |
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| 7 | 'All, meantime, were loudly lamenting the falling off in Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of...' | 08:18 |
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| 8 | 'He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment...' | 05:14 |
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| 10 | 'While the other was reading it on page two Bloom (to give him for the nonce his new misnomer) whiled away a few odd leisure moments...' | 08:59 |
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| 11 | 'Just bears out what I was saying, he with glowing bosom said to Stephen. And, if I don't greatly mistake, whe was Spanish too.' | 07:40 |
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| 1 | 'On the other hand what incensed him more inwardly was the blatant jokes of the cabmen and so on...' | 04:43 |
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| 2 | 'Anyhow, upon weighing the pros and cons, getting on for one as it was, it was high time to be retiring for the night.' | 07:39 |
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| 7 | 'Having set the half filled kettle on the now burning coals, why did he return to the stillflowing tap?' | 06:10 |
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| 9 | 'What acrostic upon the abbreviation of his first name had he (kinetic poet) sent to Miss Marion Tweedy on the 14 February 1888?' | 07:19 |
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| 10 | 'Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion...' | 06:10 |
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| 3 | 'What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?' | 05:51 |
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| 4 | 'In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation...?' | 07:57 |
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| 5 | 'His (Bloom's) logical conclusion, having weighed the matter and allowing for possible error?' | 06:06 |
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| 6 | 'What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?' | 06:00 |
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| 11 | 'Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?' | 06:20 |
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| 12 | 'Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thaumaturgic remedy.' | 02:02 |
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| 5 | 'In what final satisfaction did these antagonistic sentiments and reflections, reduced to their simplest forms, converge?' | 07:52 |
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| 6 | 'YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK TO get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs...' | 10:19 |
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| 9 | 'I hate people who come at all hous answer the door you think it's the vegetables then it's somebody...' | 09:41 |
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| 2 | 'frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants...' | 08:57 |
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| 3 | 'the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself...' | 07:36 |
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| 4 | 'he was looking at me I had that white blouse on open at the front to encourage him as much as I could without too openly...' | 11:14 |
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| 6 | 'I'm too honest as a matter of fact I suppose he thinks I'm finished out and laid on the shelf...' | 10:53 |
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| 7 | 'who knows is there something the matter with my insides or have I something growing in me...' | 07:15 |
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| 9 | 'wait by god yes wait yes hold on he was on the cards this morning when I laid out the deck...' | 05:00 |
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| 3 | 'God of heaven there's nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing...' | 04:53 |
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