1882-1941

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1882-1941

Ulysses and us

the art of everyday life in Joyce's masterpiece
2009
Argues that James Joyce's classic "Ulysses" is not meant only for a scholarly few, but a work based on the lives of ordinary people that offers a humane vision of a more tolerant world.

A skeleton key to Finnegans wake

unlocking James Joyce's masterwork
2005
Presents a reader's guide to the 1939 James Joyce novel "Finnegans Wake," including an outline of the narrative, and a deciphering of the complex use of mythology and literary allusion.

James Joyce

critical insights

Jacob's room

authoritative text, Virginia Woolf and the novel, criticism
2007
Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I. Includes extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters, comments on the novel, a selection of short stories by Woolf, critical essays, and other reference material.

James Joyce

a passionate exile
1999
Photographs and text help chronicle the life of twentieth-century novelist James Joyce, providing information about his childhood, his personal relationships, and his literary works.

James Joyce

1982
Recounts James Joyce's life, his family, his writing, and his relationships with his contemporaries.

A room of one's own

1991
Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do. Meditates on the writer-temperament and explores the need for a woman to have a room of her own and five hundred pounds a year being symbols of the power to think for oneself and contemplate.

A portrait of the artist as a young man

authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
2007
Traces the childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood of Stephen Dedalus, a character based on author James Joyce's life. Includes essays on related history and contexts, a selection of criticism, and a bibliography.

Dubliners

authoritative text, contexts, criticism
2006
Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin, and includes background materials, eight interpretive essays, explanatory annotations, and other study aids.

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