James Joyce, 1922. Modernism's defining text — 18 hours in Dublin filtered through every literary technique then known. The book that taught the 20th-century novel what it could do.
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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and was the Commanding General of the Union Army, leading it to victory in the American Civil War in 1865.