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u003cpu003eu003cbu003e'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be? u003ciu003eUlyssesu003c/iu003e is the answer'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e Patrick McGuinness from his preface to u003ciu003eUlysses: The Restored Textu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Initially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing 'obscene' content, u003ciu003eUlyssesu003c/iu003e was first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000 copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922. A subsequent printing was impounded by US customs and for a period the novel was famed for its notoriety rather than its literary achievement.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Like its author, u003ciu003eUlyssesu003c/iu003e exists in a complicated push-pull relationship with its language - English - and its setting - Ireland. Joyce returns to the themes that had preoccupied him in previous works, including nationalism and empire, religion, identity and sex in a novel which gloriously brings Dublin on June 16th 1904 to the page.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eThis edition of u003ciu003eUlyssesu003c/iu003e: u003ciu003eThe Restored Textu003c/iu003e includes the revisions that Joyce made to the novel during his lifetime.u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e