Cliffsnotes on Joyce's Ulysses

Ulysses is a challenge to read, but worth the challenge. It is thought-provoking, and this guide helps through some of the more obscure tracts.

For those voyaging through the original, but murky, literary waters of James Joyce's novel ULYSSES, the CLIFFS NOTES ON JOYCE's ULYSSES is a superbly helpful guide.This book contains contains explication on all eighteen sections of ULYSSES, character analyses, and a list of the novel's myriad characters.If you're going to tackle ULYSSES, take this CLIFFS NOTES guide along.

This guide was invaluable in helping me to understand Ulysses. I could not have made it through Ulysses without it. Kopper is definitely an intense Joyce fan, who has spent many years studying Joyce and Ulysses. The most valuable part is his detailed summary of the action in the book (which is the smallest part of Ulysses) in every chapter. The book gives a very in-depth analysis of the style, background, and subtleties of Joyce's manipulation of English.My only criticism is that Kopper never warns the reader-"This part is a hard part to understand." But, most people will get that by page two of Ulysses anyway.