Bluest book
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Ulysses: the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in Paris on 2 February 1922 by Shakespeare and Company. The book had a blue cover with a white title (blue and white being the colours of the Greek flag) and is mentioned again in Finnegans Wake as "his usylessly unreadable Blue Book of Eccles" (FW 179.26-27)
- Blue Guide: a series of travel books
- Blue Books: official reports of the English Parliament
- blue: (1) indecent, pornographic → Ulysses was widely regarded as a pornographic novel; (2) depressed or depressing
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