James Joyce
1) Ulysses
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English
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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,...
2) Dubliners
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Everyman's library volume 49
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English
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Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear, dirty Dublin" at the turn of the century, and a moral history of a nation and a people.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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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.
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Duke Classics
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English
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Dubliners comprises fifteen short stories, which Joyce intended should accurately reflect the life of the Irish middle class. Each story centers around the moment of epiphany, when a character suddenly understands something about themselves or their life and surroundings that they didn't understand before. The protagonists of the stories progress as a life progresses: from children to adolescents, to adults and the elderly.
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Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
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English
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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...
9) Epic
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Widescreen version.
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English
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The story of an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and the forces of evil. When a teen age girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters in order to save their world, and also ours.
10) The dead
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Lionsgate
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Widescreen version.
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English
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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.