James Joyce (1882–1941) is a great Irish writer, a classic and at the same time a destroyer of classics with its canons, a man to whom, more than anyone else, new literary schools and movements of the 20th century owe their birth. The novel “Ulysses” ( 1922), presented in the second volume, is not only the main work of James Joyce, a classic of Irish and world literature. This is also a major milestone in the modern art of prose, a novel that determined the path of this art and has more than once been recognized as the first and best in the history of the novel genre. The plot of the novel is extremely simple: it is one day in the life of a Dublin man in the street. But the simple shell contains the entire cosmos of literature - virtuoso language, fireworks of writing styles and techniques, historical and mythological allusions, author's irony - and a growing new view of art, man and the world. This edition includes the most complete comments on the novel, compiled by S. S. Khoruzhim.