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VIDEO: Today is Bloomsday. Hear Actor Stephen Fry Explain Why He Loves 'Ulysses'

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James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904.  Every year on June 16, Joyce admirers worldwide celebrate the writer and his great modernist take on the Ulysses myth. Mark "Bloomsday" by listening to British actor and writer Stephen Fry explain, in under two minutes, why he believes Ulysses is the best book written in English, or close to it.

 

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