<P>Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to <EM>Ulysses</EM>. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve.</P><P><EM>The New Bloomsday Book</EM> is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of <EM>Ulysses</EM> which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce''s masterpiece for the first time.</P><P>To ensure that Blamires'' classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions of <EM>Ulysses</EM>: the Oxford University Press ''World Classics'' (1993), the Penguin ''Twentieth-Century Classics'' (1992), and the Gabler ''Corrected Text'' (1986) editions.</P>