Dubliners ; A portrait of the artist as a young man ; Chamber music / James Joyce.
By: Joyce, James [author]
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BookPublisher: New York : Gramercy books, c1992Description: xix, 428 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 051708239X.Contained works: Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Portrait of the artist as a young man | Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Chamber music.Subject(s): City and town life -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction | Young men -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction | Artists -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction | Love poetry | Dublin (Ireland) -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 823.912 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 823.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085369 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Introduction by Thomas Dickey. Superb one-volume collection of the early, important works of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Included here are Dubliners, the renowned collection of nearly perfect short stories. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his most famous novel, and the early poem sequence Chamber Music -- all in their entirety.
Introduction -- Dubliners -- A portrait of the Artist as a young man -- Chamber Music.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin.Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.
Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941.
(Bowker Author Biography)