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On this day in 1922, James Joyce's fortieth birthday, Ulysses was first published. Joyce was very superstitious, and very apprehensive of a hostile reception for the novel that had been seven years in writing and sixteen years in gestation; he chose the birthday publication for luck. Because mainstream publishers had been scared off by the obscenity issue, the first edition was a small press run of only 1000 copies, financed by Sylvia Beach's "Shakespeare and Company" bookstore. In response to nervous notes and cables, the printer made assurances that three copies of the book would be mailed from Dijon on Feb ... FULL STORY »
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