Don Gifford (1919–2000)

Excellent piece of scholarly work with episode/line references for Gabler edition and page/line references for the 1961 Random House edition (which also match Vintage and Modern Library editions, I read the latter), although ML doesn't have line numbers so you have to search on the page to locate the passage. Covers just about everything and even indicates the Gabler changes.

This book is best used as an encyclopedic reference guide, I couldn't imagine reading it cover to cover, at least on a first reading of Ulysses. If I had to recommend only one guide for Ulysses, it would probably be this one, but for a first-time reader, I would also recommend [b:Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses|36951220|Ulysses Unbound A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses|Terence Killeen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1514772640s/36951220.jpg|58750580] by [a:Terence Killeen|529334|Terence Killeen|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], which is what I mostly used. My review here.… (altro)

Definitely well worth the money for any Ulysses fans. It straightens out all the Dublinisms that appear in the book and really shows just how much of an index the book is. If you go into this book not knowing what you're going to get after having read the title, I don't know what to say for you. The notes are by no means comprehensive, but it feels like it's going to be a while for that sort of thing to happen. Ulysses is almost a book that was made for the internet. People have made claims for second most important Joyce book next to Richard Ellmann's pre-eminent biography. I'd argue that that book is this.… (altro)