Post by mikef6 on Dec 6, 2023 19:30:07 GMT
On this day in 1933, December 6, 1933, a federal judge ruled that Ulysses by James Joyce was not obscene. The book had been banned immediately in both the United States and England when it came out in 1922. Three years earlier, its serialization in an American review had been cut short by the U.S. Post Office for the same reason. Fortunately, one of James' supporters, Sylvia Beach, owner of the Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris, published the novel herself in 1922,
