![]() ![]() Customs Service when the ship carrying the work arrived. ![]() ![]() It therefore made an arrangement to import the edition published in France and to have a copy seized by the U.S. In 1932 Random House, which had the rights to publish the entire book in the United States, decided to bring a test case to challenge the de facto ban, so as to publish the work without fear of prosecution. That stopped publication of Ulysses in the United States for over a decade. The court convicted and fined Anderson and Heap after a trial in which one of the judges stated that the novel seemed "like the work of a disordered mind". Little Review publishers Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap could not argue that the chapter should be considered in light of the work as a whole, as only the offending chapter was published in the magazine issue in question. As the magazine could be purchased in a New York bookshop and The Little Review, the publisher, was based in the city, the local district attorney was able to prosecute in New York. Copies were mailed to potential subscribers a girl of unknown age read it and was shocked, and a complaint was made to the Manhattan District Attorney. In 1920 this periodical published the " Nausicäa episode", which contained a masturbation scene. Prior to publication as a book, the work was serialized in The Little Review, a literary magazine. In 1922 James Joyce published Ulysses, his most famous work. James Joyce, about the time of first publication of Ulysses ![]()
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