Ulysses at 100: Eight things to know about Joyce's great book

Why people lie about reading Ulysses; Molly Bloom's sexual desire... and the book's mention of the Cork Examiner
Ulysses at 100: Eight things to know about Joyce's great book

James Joyce with Sylvia Beach, the publisher of Ulysses. (Picture AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

Tue, 01 Feb, 2022 - 11:52
Marjorie Brennan

Why people lie about reading Ulysses

 It regularly features in greatest novel lists and equally in the ‘books I haven’t finished’ category — in 2009, for a survey carried out on World Book Day, it also came in third (behind Orwell's 1984 and Tolstoy’s War and Peace) in a survey of books most people have lied about reading. 

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