Ulysses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ulysses, credited to James Joyce, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Ulysses, by James Joyce. Read by Librivox volunteers. Still considered one of the most radical works of fiction of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the narrative follows Leopold Bloom and a number of other characters through an ordinary day, twenty four hours, in Dublin, on June 16, 1904. The text is dense and difficult, but perfectly suited to an oral reading, filled with language tricks, puns and jokes, stream of consciousness, and bawdiness. NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as creative group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there is some accidental variation from the original text ... Listener be warned!. Here is some more information about the genesis of the LibriVox Ulysses project.(Summary by Hugh McGuire) Listeners who would prefer a more conventional recording are invited to download version 2 instead.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ulysses
• Author credits: James Joyce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 32:39:01

Catalogue topics

• Dublin
• experimental

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01: stately, plump Buck ... — 1:00:41
2. 02: you, cochrane, what city sent ... — 34:38
3. 03: ineluctable modality of the visible ... — 47:10
4. 04: mr. leopold bloom ate with relish ... — 43:25
5. 05: by lorries along sir john... — 50:17
6. 06: martin cunningham, first, poked ... — 1:23:05
7. 07: in the heart of the hibernian ... — 57:50
8. 08a: pineapple rock, lemon platt ... — 46:27
9. 08b: grafton street gay with ... — 43:21
10. 09a: urbane, to confort them ... — 51:00
11. 09b: buck Mulligan rapped... — 42:43
12. 10a: the superior, very reverend ... — 45:22
13. 10b: the lacquey by the door ... — 45:37
14. 11a: bronze by gold heard ... — 44:43
15. 11b: never would richie ... — 55:18
16. 12a: I was just passing the time ... — 1:09:06
17. 12b: here says joe ... — 1:37:23
18. 13a: the summer evening had ... — 20:17
19. 13b: edy boardman asked ... — 34:03
20. 13c: canon ohanlon put ... — 27:18
21. 13d: wonder how is she — 26:09
22. 14a: deshil holles eamus ... — 1:00:19
23. 14b: to revert to mr. bloom ... — 55:06
24. 15a: the mabbot street entrance... — 54:39

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