James Joyce

First published in 1916, this classic portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and growing awareness of his artistic vocation.

"All the action of Ulysses takes place in and immediately around Dublin on a single day (June 16, 1904). The three central characters—Stephen Dedalus (the hero of Joyce’s earlier Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man); Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser; and his wife, Molly—are intended to be modern counterparts of Telemachus, Ulysses (Odysseus), and Penelope, respectively, and the events of the novel loosely parallel the major events...

"The Dead" is the final and longest story in the Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce. First published in 1904, the stories aim to capture Irish middle class life as it really was around Dublin at the turn-of-the-century. Like many of Joyce's tales in the collection, "The Dead" features a transformative epiphany, where a character experiences a sudden insight into their life that changes the way they see everything. In what...

During the Irish Revival Mrs. Kearney decides to earn her family a higher social position by means of her daughter and obtains for her a contract to play a series of piano concerts. When the concerts are not as successful as Mrs. Kearney expected, she suddenly becomes concerned with the money owed to her for her daughter's work. Critically acclaimed author James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin...

Influential and innovative, James Joyce (1882–1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction. Sooner or later, most undergraduates encounter him, and many scholars devote their entire careers to his exuberantly eloquent prose. Joyce's experimental use of language and stream-of-consciousness techniques continues to captivate modern readers and writers, and this anthology offers a first-rate introduction to the Irish author's fiction and poetry....

Hay que leer Retrato del artista adolescente con ojos absolutamente inocentes, dejándonos conducir solo por las palabras mediante las cuales se crea como obra de arte. En esta dirección Retrato del artista adolescente mantiene nuestro gozo de lectores durante todo su desarrollo siendo fiel nada mas a la exigencia de ir contando, de hacerse existir siempre como una obra redonda en la que nada interrumpe el placer narrativo. El desarrollo de la acción...

A young boy in love with his friend's sister promises to bring her back a gift from the Araby bazaar when he learns she cannot go. It is only later that night that the boy is able to make it to the bazaar and by the time he arrives, most of the stalls are closed and only late night activities are taking place between young women and men. Critically acclaimed author James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class...

En el centenario de la publicación del «Ulises», la vida de Joyce narrada por su hermano Stanislaus. Recuerdos del entorno creativo y su trágica vida familiar. Ser hermano de un autor famoso confiere grandes obligaciones y muy pequeñas distinciones. El profesor Stanislaus Joyce sobrellevó su carga con nobleza y disconformidad. A pesar de sus reservas, vivió una vida en gran parte moldeada por su hermano, combatió el derecho de los demás...

This early work by James Joyce was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Pomes Penyeach' is a collection of Joyce's poetry.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was ranked by Modern Library as the third greatest English-language novel of the 20th century. It is a semi-autobiographical novel chronicling the spiritual and intellectual awakening and rebellion of Stephen Dedalus against the conventions into which he was born. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero's...