‘Ulysses’ Tops List of Best Novels

James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” the epic story about one man’s journey during a single day in Dublin, Ireland, has been unanimously selected by a panel of scholars and writers as the best English-language novel of the century. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” was second, and Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” was third. The selections by the Modern Library’s editorial board in New York were generally older, recognized classics.