James Joyce
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Mr. Duffy is a bank cashier and recluse living in Dublin, who purposely avoids contact with other people-until he meets Mrs. Sinico at a concert. While Mr. Sinico believes their relationship to be purely platonic, Mrs. Sinico indicates otherwise.
Critically acclaimed author James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. First published in 1914, the stories draw on themes...
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Farrington is an alcoholic scrivener who has been scolded by his boss for not finishing a task on time. But instead of completing the task, Farrington goes out for a beer and receives yet another scolding from his boss. Farrington's day continues to unravel when he is humiliated at a local pub, and arrives home to find his wife out at chapel and his dinner uncooked.
Critically acclaimed author James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories...
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Life is an experience that is, played out in our minds. Understanding our minds inner workings and nuances is the key to finding health, happiness and joy for the time we are on Earth. Coming to terms with our mind is a monumental challenge we all face. If we are able to understand the machine that is our brain, we can truly enjoy life and all of its offerings. We have all heard the saying find yourself or get in touch with yourself; or in Shakespearean...
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La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.
En este volumen traemos a James Joyce, un escritor irlandés, mundialmente reconocido como uno de los más importantes e influyentes del siglo XX. Joyce es aclamado por su obra maestra, Ulises y por su controvertida novela posterior, Finnegans Wake. Igualmente ha sido muy valorada la serie de historias breves titulada Dublineses, así como su...
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Este es otro volumen de la exitosa Colección Mejores Cuentos, una selección de obras maestras de autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temáticas muy variadas, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y posiblemente la más importante: brindar placer al lector. En este libro electrónico, tendrás acceso a los Mejores Cuentos Extranjeros, una selección de cuentos memorables escritos por grandes maestros del cuento de la literatura internacional,...
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Este es otro volumen de la exitosa Colección Mejores Cuentos, una selección de obras maestras de autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temáticas muy variadas, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y posiblemente la más importante: brindar placer al lector. En "Los Mejores Cuentos Americanos", al igual que en otras ediciones de la Colección de Mejores Cuentos, descubrirás una selección representativa de la vasta obra de cuentistas...
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In this rare 1924 recording, James Joyce reads from the Aeolus episode of his masterpiece, Ulysses. The recording was arranged and financed by the author's friend and publisher Sylvia Beach, who brought him by taxi to the HMV (His Master's Voice) gramophone studio in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. The first session didn't go well. Joyce was nervous and suffering from his recurring eye troubles. He and Beach returned another day to finish the recording....
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The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey "Slicks" and Huey "Gunships": the former on defense as he flew troops into battle, and the latter on offense as he took the battle to the enemy. Through this book, the author relives his experiences flying and fighting, with special attention given to his and other...
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In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to life Joyce's short stories from Dubliners, as well as selections from the brilliant A Portrait of the Artist...
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Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses is a languorous internal monologue, in which the passionate wife of Leopold Bloom meditates on love and life. While Bloom sleeps beside her (head to toe), Molly recalls her many infidelities, including the energetic sexual encounter enjoyed that very afternoon. Though difficult to read straight from the page, Marcella Riordan's beautiful reading of this passage brings out all the wit and passion...
51) Arabia
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Arabia cuenta en primera persona la historia de un adolescente enamorado de la hermana de su amigo.
52) Una nubecilla
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Texto que pertenece a la colección de una serie de cuentos reunidos en "Dublineses" de James Joyce. En este relato, se narra el reencuentro de dos amigos, Gallaher y Chandler, quienes después de ocho años sin verse comparten diversos recuerdos. El primero, es exitoso y le menciona a su amigo los lugares que ha conocido en Europa; mientras que el segundo, es un hombre introvertido que tiene algunos proyectos frustrados.
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"Eveline" is a short story from James Joyce's classic Dubliners. Nineteen-year-old Eveline has decided to leave home, but her future journey may not be all that she hopes. Like other stories in Dubliners, "Eveline" offers a penetrating analysis of Dublin society, especially its stagnation and paralysis. Each story incorporates epiphanies, by which Joyce meant to convey a sudden consciousness of the "soul" of a thing.
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« Dubliners » de son nom original est un passionnant recueil de nouvelles modernistes écrit par James Joyce qui dépeint de manière remarquable la vie quotidienne des gens de Dublin. Vivant à l'étranger mais écrivant toujours sur sa ville natale, Joyce a rendu Dublin inoubliable! Les histoires des gens de Dublin décrivent des buveurs d'alcool, des séducteurs, des nationalistes, des commères, des politiciens corrompus et des ados oisifs qui...
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The short stories of Irish writers appeal to audiences far beyond the shores of Eire. In this second rich selection, we bring you the comic genius of Le Fanu in The Ghost and the Bonesetter; a slice of Dublin life from the refreshingly original pen of James Joyce; a tale of love and honour from Ireland's hungry times in The Stolen Sheep; George Moore's evocative masterpiece about a countryman returning home to Ireland from a slum in The Bowery; and...
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"THE FEMINISTS" is the most explosive expose of the 21st century. It's all here! Over one hundred years of lies, deceit, murder, evil beyond measure, complicit politicians, sex, genocide and the complete corruption of American youth! The book will crush the feminist abortion rights organization and cast it into the dustbin of worthless, evil, historically malevolent causes! Learn about the lies blaming your Grandmothers for being cowards after World...
58) G.A.W
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Children are the foundation of our society, and when they lose their way, we must help them find it again. GAW is a story of a man's journey to help incarcerated youths find peace and repentance for the crimes they have committed. In order to do this, he exposed the children to the mercy of the Lord through his jail ministry work and showed them how they have, the power to change the course of their own lives. Throughout the novel, various stories...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to...