Public-domain audiobook
Ulysses (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Ulysses by James Joyce: 32 h 39 min in 39 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
32 h 39 minrunning time
39sections
≈ 303,000words
About this recording
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from the original text ... Listener be warned! Here is some more information about the genesis of the LibriVox Ulysses project . (Summary by Hugh McGuire) Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel.
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.