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For greater than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most crucial book in the English language was unlawful to own, sell, advertise or purchase in the majority of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist age and evolved the novel forever. But the genius of Ulysses was also its threat: it omitted nothing at all. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom's day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful perfection in its pages. THE BRAND NEW York Population for the Suppression of Vice immediately suspended the book as "obscene, lewd, and lascivious". Joyce, along with some of the most crucial publishers and freelance writers of his age, had to struggle for a long time to win the freedom to create it. The Most Dangerous Reserve says the remarkable storyline adjoining Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce's creativity in 1904 to its landmark national obscenity trial in 1933. Literary historian Kevin Birmingham practices Joyce's years as a writer, his feverish work on his literary masterpiece, and his ardent love affair with Nora Barnacle, the model for Molly Bloom. Joyce and Nora socialized with literary greats like Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Beach. Their support helped Joyce struggle an array of anti-vice crusaders while his publication was disguised and smuggled, pirated and burned in the United States and Britain. The long have difficulties for publication put into the growing stresses of Joyce's deteriorating eyesight, budget and home life. Birmingham's archival work brings to light new information about both Joyce and the story adjoining Ulysses. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the center of the greatest book of the 20th hundred years, The Most Dangerous Reserve is a gripping examination of how the world came to state yes to Ulysses.
