\"There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin....

It is only James Joyce\"s towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce\"s career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right....

In these stories, Joyce describes the lives of ordinary Dubliners. Their lives are not always easy, and they have problems with their families. They were the people who Joyce grew up with and he knew them very well. Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language....

The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce\"s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself....

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....

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of \"Giacomo Joyce\", written in James Joyce\"s best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste....

In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth....

On the bleak streets of Dublin, a young boy grieves over the death of an irreligious priest, a woman elopes with her lover, and a professor considers the nature of death: these are some of the unfortunate denizens of James Joyce\"s imagination....

\"I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.\" Painfully truthful, James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus in the turbulent times of late 19th-century Ireland....

Initially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing \"obscene\" content, Ulysses was first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000 copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922....

James Joyce, full name James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941) - a famous Irish novelist. He is noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s first novel....