James Joyce

This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.

Widely regarded as the greatest stylist of twentieth-century English literature, James Joyce deserves the term "revolutionary." His literary experiments in form and structure, language and content, signaled the modernist movement and continue to influence writers today. His two earliest, and perhaps most accessible, successes, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, are here brought together in one volume. Both works reflect Joyce's...

This early work by James Joyce was originally published in 1939 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Finnegans Wake' is a an experimental novel of comic fiction. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. He excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, and then at University College Dublin, where he studied English, French, and Italian. Joyce produced several prominent works, including: 'Ulysses',...

Collection of 12 works of selected Irish fiction, poetry and nonfiction "in a single volume which that recognizes their enormous literary contribution" to English language literature. Biographical notes precede each author's entry.