James Joyce

James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly allusive novel, revolutionary in its modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite,...

A collection of Love Poems "Welladay! Welladay!, For the winds of May!, Love is unhappy when love is away!" The title of the book, "Chamber Music," was reportedly a pun relating to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, though this seems to be a later embellishment by Joyce of the title's meaning.

'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, myth,...

This edition of Joyce's classic novel presents the 1964 text, newly corrected by Chester G. Anderson, along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from five contemporary critical perspectives: Psychoanalytic Criticism by Sheldon Brivic, Reader-Response Criticism by Norman N. Holland, Feminist Criticism by Suzette Henke, Deconstruction by Cheryl Herr, and...

Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.