James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist and poet whose works, all set in Dublin and notable for their influence on twentieth century modernist literature, remain widely read and controversial today. This selected collection of his most famous works – 'Dubliners', 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake' – presented in a single volume is an essential edition for collectors, students and general lovers of modernist literature.
Upon its publication in 1959, this book was recognized as the definitive study of Joyce's life. In honor of the James Joyce Centenary in 1982, the author published a new...
A shocking confession made by the husband's wife toward the end of the story showcases the power of Joyce's greatest innovation: the epiphany, that moment when everything, for character and reader alike, is suddenly clear.
First published in 1959, William York Tindall's Reader's Guide is still considered to be the best introduction to the complex writings of James Joyce.
011 Sunday nights there would often be a reunion in Mrs Mooney's front drawing-room. The music-hall artistes would oblige; and Sheridan played waltzes and polkas and vamped accompaniments. Polly Mooney, the Madam's daughter, ...
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Winner of Spain’s National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life.
In James Joyce, Gordon Bowker, draws on material recently come to light and reconsiders the two signal works produced about Joyce's life—Herbert Gorman's authorized biography of 1939 and Richard Ellmann's magisterial tome of 1959.
Fifteen short stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of the Irish city of Dublin at the turn of the century
'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday Telegraph 'A delight from start to finish . . . achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce' Sunday Times 'Accessible and ...
In the ' Lestrygonians ' episode in Homer there was a seduction motif ( the cannibal king's daughter ) . Joyce's way of alluding to this was to show Bloom being momentarily aroused by women's underwear in a shop window .