Ulysses
While it is now available for purchase and reading through mainstream avenues, James Joyce’s seminal novel Ulysses was initially serialized and published within the pages of The Little Review, a literary magazine known for publishing experimental works not accepted by the mainstream publishers or readerships. The Little Review published the first thirteen and a half episodes of Ulysses in installments from March 1918 to December 1920. In 1920, the magazine was seized and its editors Margaret C. Anderson and Jane Heap were charged with obscenity due to the contents of the novel. The Little Review lost the subsequent court case, and the magazine was prohibited from continuing to publish the novel, with the result that Ulysses exists within its pages only through the midpoint of its fourteenth episode “Oxen of the Sun.”
The following items are digitized pages of The Little Review vol. 6 no. 11, vol. 7 no. 1, and vol. 7 no. 2, which contain parts one, two, and three of “Nausicaa,” the thirteenth episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It was this episode which contains the scene John Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice considered ‘indecent,’ and which resulted in both the obscenity trial against Anderson and Heap and the discontinuation of the novel’s publication.
Click on any of the pages to read the episode.
Ulysses Episode 13 Part 1
Ulysses Episode 13 Part 2
Ulysses Episode 13 Part 3
