Bloomsday, the only international holiday in recognition of a work of art, brings scholars, devotees, and the general public together on Delancey Place for a day of dramatic readings from the novel. The Rosenbach celebrates the Joycean tradition annually on Bloomsday, June 16. (Quinn had defended Joyce and his publishers against obscenity charges under the Comstock laws in 1920.) View a complete guide to the works by and about James Joyce in the Rosenbach collection here. He purchased the manuscript at the auction of lawyer John Quinn’s collection in 1924. Rosenbach owned a first edition of the novel – the banned book had been smuggled into the country for him in 1922. The manuscript of Ulysses is among the premier treasures of the Rosenbach. James Joyce (1882-1941) has been called the greatest 20th-century novelist writing in English.
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