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Government papers details efforts to suppress James Joyce's book

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From: AP Online
Date: 19980515
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AP Online
05-15-1998
LONDON (AP) _ A British prosecutor who decided in 1922 that James Joyce's ``Ulysses'' was obscene read only a few dozen pages at the end, according to recently released government papers.

The documents, excerpted today in The Guardian, also detail the British government's successful efforts to discourage a Cambridge University literary critic from lecturing about the book.

The papers were supposed to be withheld for 100 years, but recently were deposited at the Public Records Office, The Guardian said.

``Ulysses,'' published in Paris in 1922, shocked ...

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