A Dublin childhood, a Jesuit education, a sermon on hell that runs for pages, and a young man who decides that neither family, nor country, nor church will have him. Joyce spent ten years on it, burned an early draft, and published it only after Ezra Pound intervened; it ends with Stephen Dedalus leaving for the continent, as Joyce himself had done at twenty-two.

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”On 16 June 1904, Leopold Bloom brought his wife breakfast in bed. A day much like any other, he picks up his mail, goes to work, and meets with friends at a nearby pub. On the same day, the young writer Stephen Daedalus sets out on his own day to deliver a lecture on Hamlet at the National Library....

A freshly annotated and reset edition of Joyce's great epic, in a hardback Penguin Classics editionUlysses, written between 1914 and 1921, has survived censorship, legal action and bitter controversy. Following the events of a single day in Dublin and the experiences of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, it stands as an undisputed modernist classic: a profoundly Irish book that also reaches out to the whole world.Reset from the 1922...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works...

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”A boy attends a funeral for a priest; a young woman decides if she should run off with a sailor; a group of friends tries to help an alcoholic by inviting him to a religious retreat; two con men find a maid to help them steal from her employer. A glimpse into the lives of ordinary people living in Dublin, each one of the 15 short s...

Irish modernist writer and author of Ulysses, James Joyce, brings the city and all its characters alive in six affecting, atmospheric stories selected from his iconic 1914 collection Dubliners.Relationships old and new, real and imagined are put to the test in ‘Eveline’ and ‘Araby’. In ‘A Little Cloud’, a young father reflects on his life as he sits in a pub with an old friend fresh from travels abroad. Could he have done any better with his lot? ...

"Ulysses" takes place in Dublin, Ireland, over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904. The story follows the lives of three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, a young aspiring writer who serves as a fictionalized version of Joyce himself; Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising salesman; and Molly Bloom, Leopold's wife.The novel is heavily inspired by Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," with each chapter corresponding to an episode in Odysseus' journey. Joyce uses this framework to explore vari...

Ulysses is a novel by Irish author James Joyce. Although it was banned soon after it was published, it has become known as one of the greatest novels of all time. A classic of the Modernist pantheon, Ulysses pioneers many literary techniques such as stream-of-consciousness.The novel takes place on 16 June 1904 in Dublin and chronicles the day in the life of Leopold Bloom. June 16th is now celebrated internationally as Bloomsday. Paralleling Odysseus' journey in Homer's Odyssey, the novel c...

16th of June is Bloomsday. It is called Bloomsday because 16th of June (1904) is the day covered by James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses. Why Bloom? Well, read the novel, it’s one of the greatest ever written. One short interesting fact: James Joyce’s books follow a strange pattern:Dubliners, 1914, a collection of short-stories about the lives of some characters in DublinA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916, – a novel about the f...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in Whi...

This ebook is a collection of the complete works of James Joyce.It has the seven books published in Joyce's lifetime, and three sections of posthumously published writings: the poems, the essays, and additional prose.To make navigation through the collection easier, each book/section has its own table of contents. Links at the end of every text/chapter bring you back to the respective table of contents. At the end of each of these tables a link leads to the main contents ta...