For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowderlization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kiberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.'

This edition is the standard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960.

This Annotated Student's Edition has full explanatory notes which use the internationally recognized system of line numbers for critical reference.

詹姆斯·喬伊斯（James Joyce, 1882-1941）是20世紀西方富有獨創性和影響很大的作傢。生於愛爾蘭首都都柏林。他一生顛沛流離，輾轉於的裏雅斯特、羅馬、巴黎等地，多以教授英語和為報刊撰稿糊口，又飽受眼疾摺磨，到晚年幾乎完全失明；但他對文學矢誌不渝，勤奮寫作，終成一代巨匠。《尤利西斯》是他的代錶作。