James Joyce

An unabridged republication of Joyce's early twentieth-century vignettes of Irish life.

"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...

'Riverrun past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs...'

So starts Finnegans Wake, the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. Who is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? And what did he get up to in Phoenix Park? And what did Anna Livia Plurabelle have to say about it? In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote,

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This strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce’s epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the incredible talent of a leading Spanish artist.
 
The neo-figurative artist Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018), regarded today as one of the greatest Spanish painters of his generation, dreamed of illustrating James Joyce’s Ulysses. Although he began work on the project in 1989, it was never...

Les Gens de Dublin de James Joyce, publié pour la première fois en 1914, est une collection fondamentale de quinze nouvelles qui plongent dans la vie des habitants ordinaires de Dublin au tournant du 20e siècle. À travers des détails méticuleux et une profonde perspicacité, Joyce crée un tableau vivant de la capitale irlandaise, capturant les complexités de son tissu social et les expériences humaines universelles qui y résident."Les Gens...

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected....

A shocking confession from his wife prompts Gabriel to reconsider what he knows and understands of his wife and their shared past, whether it is better to die young, and what will be remembered of him when he is gone. 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 relevant to the time such...

Eveline sits in her room thinking about the people she has lost-her mother and her brother. Her other brother is traveling for work and she is afraid that her alcoholic father will beat her with no one else to turn on. She plans to run away with a sailor with whom she has fallen in love, but will a promise made to her mother keep her at home? Critically acclaimed author James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class...

In a list published by an American specialized magazine, which ranked the best short stories of the 20th century, the story chosen as the best was "The Dead" by James Joyce, and there are plenty of reasons for this choice. "The Dead" is the final story in the volume "Dubliners" and differs from the other stories both in its greater length and its poetic intensity and symbolism. The central theme here is the mortality of the human being, which is suggested...

James Joyce (1882-1941) foi um escritor irlandês. Autor de Dublinenses, Os Mortos, Retratos de um Artista quando Joven, e também Ulisses, considerada a obra que inaugura o romance moderno e uma das mais importantes da literatura ocidental. Dubliners (Dublinenses) foi escrito por James Joyce a partir de 1904 e publicado em 1914. Consiste em quinze contos enfocando diversos aspectos da vida da cidade e seus habitantes. Trata-se de uma excelente obra...