The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A....

Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production....

As he was finishing Finnegans Wake, Joyce proclaimed, “I have discovered I can do anything with language I want....

Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century....