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James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel... Read More
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Ulysses
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $17.95
This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $17.95
This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934. Read more >
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as... Read more >
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Dubliners
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time. He rebelled against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the center of this magnificent collection of stories.
In Dubliners, Joyce paints vivid portraits of the denizens of the city of his... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1990
Price: $4.95
James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time. He rebelled against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the center of this magnificent collection of stories.
In Dubliners, Joyce paints vivid portraits of the denizens of the city of his... Read more >
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Ulysses
Format: Hardcover, 816 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.95
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 816 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.95
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Ulysses (Gabler Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $20.95
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $20.95
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. Read more >
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $12.00
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $12.00
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence... Read more >
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.
Published in 1916 when Joyce was al?ready at work on Ulysses, A... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.
Published in 1916 when Joyce was al?ready at work on Ulysses, A... Read more >
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Ulysses
Format: Hardcover, 1136 pages
On Sale: October 28, 1997
Price: $27.50
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The most famous day in literature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, contemplates his wife’s imminent adultery, and, late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1136 pages
On Sale: October 28, 1997
Price: $27.50
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The most famous day in literature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, contemplates his wife’s imminent adultery, and, late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the... Read more >
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Dubliners
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1993
Price: $17.95
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1993
Price: $17.95
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under... Read more >
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Dubliners
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication until 1914. In the century since, his story “The Dead” has come to be... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication until 1914. In the century since, his story “The Dead” has come to be... Read more >
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Dubliners
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $10.00
"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own."
-- James Joyce... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 6, 1993
Price: $10.00
"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own."
-- James Joyce... Read more >
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $4.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.
Published in 1916 when Joyce was al?ready at work on Ulysses, A... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $4.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution.
Published in 1916 when Joyce was al?ready at work on Ulysses, A... Read more >
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Dubliners
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $10.00
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $10.00
Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist... Read more >
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $11.00
Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $11.00
Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in... Read more >
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Ulysses
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $17.95
Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on, and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book in their literary magazine The Little Review in 1918, they were... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $17.95
Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on, and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book in their literary magazine The Little Review in 1918, they were... Read more >
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