It looks as though we'll all be going with the text the bookstore ordered, so I'm posting Cedric Watts's introduction from the Wordsworth Classics edition of Ulysses here as a pdf file viewable in Adobe's Acrobat Reader.

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The article is taken from the Wordsworth Classics Edition of Ulysses, London: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2010.

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Here's the essay:

• "Introduction"