Amazon.com description: Product Description: James Joyce was an Irish writer who is considered to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Joyce only wrote three novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, but each of them are still widely read today. Ulysses is a long novel and is considered to be one of the most important works in modernist literature. The classic book is set in Dublin and tells the story of Leopold Bloom. The story makes parallels between Leopold Bloom's average day in Dublin and the hero from Homer's poem The Odyssey.