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January 25 – James Joyce's novel Ulysses, after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales. [2]
The Sinner and the Saint is the second book authored by Birmingham. His first, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, originally published in 2014, won the PEN New England Award in 2015 and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2016. [5] [6]
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, 5 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1933), affirmed in United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce (Random House, Inc., Claimant), 72 F. 705 (1934) is a landmark decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in a case dealing with freedom of expression.
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is a 2015 non-fiction book, aimed for young adolescent readers, written by Steve Sheinkin and published through Roaring Brook Press. The multi-award-winning book tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg's role in the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers.
2016 Kevin Birmingham – The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses [12] 2017 Gillian Beer – Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll [13] 2018 Robert Hass – A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry [14]
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) Julia Dent Grant, wife of 18th president Ulysses S. Grant, initially wrote these memoirs as a "family volume," with no intention of ...
Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist. He is most notable for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924).
The story has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks and Fay Wray, [6] and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles. [7] It has been called the "most popular short story ever written in English."