James, Joyce - Libros y biografía

During the Irish Revival Mrs. Kearney decides to earn her family a higher social position by means of her daughter and obtains for her a contract to play a series of piano concerts. When the concerts...

Farrington is an alcoholic scrivener who has been scolded by his boss for not finishing a task on time. But instead of completing the task, Farrington goes out for a beer and receives yet another scolding...

Mr. Duffy is a bank cashier and recluse living in Dublin, who purposely avoids contact with other people—until he meets Mrs. Sinico at a concert. While Mr. Sinico believes their relationship to be purely...

Bored of the lack of adventure at school, two boys decide to cut class and head for the shore. They encounter many people and social events along the way, until they finally meet an older man who gives...

Jimmy Doyle, a college student, is well-connected and has many wealthy friends. He enjoys the glamorous company, and his parents are proud. At dinner one evening, Jimmy and his friend entertain an English...

A young boy in love with his friend’s sister promises to bring her back a gift from the Araby bazaar when he learns she cannot go. It is only later that night that the boy is able to make it to the bazaar...

Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. At the heart of each story is a character’s moment...

James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel chronicling the spiritual and intellectual awakening and rebellion of Stephen Dedalus against the conventions into...

A shocking confession from his wife prompts Gabriel to reconsider what he knows and understands of his wife and their shared past, whether it is better to die young, and what will be remembered of him...

Little Chandler spends dinner with his friend Ignatius Gallaher reflecting on his own failed dreams as compared to Ignatius’s successes with London Press. Once home, Little Chandler begins to compare...

Eveline sits in her room thinking about the people she has lost—her mother and her brother. Her other brother is traveling for work and she is afraid that her alcoholic father will beat her with no one...

Mrs. Mooney runs a boarding house for working men, and her daughter Polly entertains the men by singing and flirting. When Mrs. Mooney discovers that Polly is having an affair with one of the men, Mr....

A boy who has become close to a priest, Father Flynn, is told of the priest’s death at dinner by his family. After dinner, the boy’s anguish over the priest’s death leads to a night of terrible dreams.Critically...

Two conmen, Corley and Lenehan, discuss the maid Corley has tricked into stealing from her employer for him. While Corley meets the maid at a designated time, Lenehan watches from a distance and reflects...

Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle class life in Dublin in the early 20th century. First published in 1914, the stories draw on themes...

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin...

A collection containing Ulysses, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes within the stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations...

Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's...

Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

The fifteen stories about Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce - a Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus,...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce - a Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus,...

Recueil de quinze nouvelles mettant en scène des Dublinois de toutes conditions, des enfants qui font l’école buissonnière, des femmes de condition modeste qui rêvent au prince charmant, des petits employés...