Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Episode Guides
Chapter 1. "Telemachus" Guide
Chapter 2. "Nestor" Guide
Chapter 3. "Proteus" Guide
Chapter 4. "Calypso" Guide
Chapter 5. "Lotus-Eaters" Guide
Chapter 6. "Hades" Guide
Chapter 7. "Aeolus" Guide
Chapter 8. "Lestrygonians" Guide
Chapter 9. "Scylla and Charybdis" Guide
Chapter 10. "Wandering Rocks" Guide
Chapter 11. "Sirens" Guide
Chapter 12. "Cyclops" Guide
Chapter 13. "Nausicaa" Guide
Chapter 14. "Oxen of the Sun" Guide
Chapter 15. "Circe" Guide
Chapter 16. "Eumaeus" Guide
Chapter 17. "Ithaca" Guide
Chapter 18. "Penelope" Guide
Acknowledgments
Appendixes
A. A Chronology of Stephen's Day
B. A Chronology of Bloom's Day
C. Money in Ulysses
D. Ulysses Schema
Notes
Selected and Annotated Bibliography
Index

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Patrick Hastings is the chair of the English department at Gilman School. He is the creator of UlyssesGuide.com.

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Written with warmth, affection, clarity and insight, [The Guide to James Joyce's "Ulysses"] is full of observations and witty asides that remind readers that Ulysses – whatever else it may be – is a comic novel. Hastings's book is thoroughly useable, and many first-time Joyceans will find it indispensable as they embark on the lifelong adventure that is reading Ulysses.
—Times Literary Supplement

Thoroughly reliable.
—Terrence Killeen, James Joyce Quarterly

Hastings manages to steer his readers between the Scylla of ignorance and the Charybdis of erudition...
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