In 1922 a demure, middle-aged woman called Harriet Weaver visited several London bookshops with a bulky volume wrapped in paper under her arm. In time government officials would declare the book, entitled "Ulysses" and written by a little-known Irish author, James Joyce, to be "unreadable, unquotable and unre-viewable". British war censors became convinced that it was written in spy code. It was confiscated and burned on both sides of the Atlantic. Miss Weaver, a rich heiress who baffled her family by publishing and defending Joyce, was put under police surveillance. But as copies of the book burned, she printed more.
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