James joyce books

Ulysses was probably never going to be my favourite book of all time but, I must say... it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Plotting our stories doesn't preclude allowing them to develop spontaneously as we write. The two approaches work well together.

The literary world can be a bit of an echo chamber. That is, if enough people say a book is “great,” it becomes official. It becomes a Great Book, and horrified looks are administered t…

Always wanted to tackle the great Irish writer but not sure Ulysses is for you? This handy primer may just help you find a way in

Finishing Finnegans Wake felt like the end of a long, literary marriage and I instinctively understood what that meant: a bad case of post break-up blues.

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Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James…

"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question." "What you said, is it? Cranly asked. Yes, I remember it. To discover the mode of life or of art whereby your spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom." "A vague dissatisfaction grew up within him as he looked on the quays and on the river and on the lowering skies and yet he continued to wander up and down day after day as if he really sought someone that eluded him. He went once…