Ulysses by James Joyce
Published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1922.
James Joyce's Ulysses was embroiled in a famous and lengthy censorship battle. Ulysses, was first published serially in the American literary magazine, The Little Review, from March 1918 to December 1920. The magazine's editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, fought to prevent suppression of Joyce's work on grounds of obscenity and immorality. In the end, however, the censors won a court order against Anderson and Heap, restraining them from any further printing of Ulysses. Two years later, with the aid of his friend Ezra Pound, Joyce was able to interest Sylvia Beach and her publishing firm, Shakespeare and Company, in his controversial, modernist novel. On February 2, 1922, Ulysses was published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris through the printing services of Maurice Darantiere at Dijon. It was not until December 6,1933, that the ban on Ulysses was lifted in the United States and published by Random House.
Published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1922.