Leopold Bloom committed suicide), and of Ellen Higgins, an Irish Protestant. He is uncircumcised. They lived in Clanbrassil Street, Portobello. Bloom converted to Catholicism to marry Marion (Molly) Tweedy on 8 October 1888. The couple have one daughter, Millicent (Milly), born in 1889; their son Rudolph (Rudy), born in December 1893, died after 11 days. The family live at 7 Eccles Street in Dublin. Episodes (chapters) in "Ulysses" relate a series of encounters and incidents in Bloom's contemporary odyssey through Dublin in the course of the single day of 16 June 1904 (although episodes 1 to 3, 9 and to a lesser
Penrod and Sam (novel) Penrod and Sam (novel) Penrod and Sam is a novel by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1916. it is set pre-World War 1. The book is the sequel to his 1914 work the same as the first book, "Penrod", and focuses more on the relationship between the main character of the previous book, Penrod Schofield, and his best friend, Sam Williams. More of Penrod's adventures appear in the final book of the series "Penrod Jashber" (1929). The three books were published together in one volume, "Penrod: His Complete Story", in 1931. "Penrod and Sam" was the most popular