false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255578980m/23296.jpg 23296 6 <div><div>Widely regarded as the greatest stylist of twentieth-century English literature, <b>James Joyce</b> deserves the term &#8220;revolutionary.&#8221; His literary experiments in form and structure, language and content, signaled the modernist movement and continue to influence writers today. His two earliest, and perhaps most accessible, successes&#8212;<i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i> and <i>Dubliners</i>&#8212;are here brought together in one volume. Both works reflect Joyce&#8217;s lifelong love-hate relationship with Dublin and the Irish culture that formed him.<br><br>In the semi-autobiographical <i>Portrait</i>, young Stephen Dedalus yearns to be an artist, but first must struggle against the forces of church, school, and society, which fetter his imagination and stifle his soul. The book&#8217;s inventive style is apparent from its opening pages, a record of an infant&#8217;s impressions of the world around him&#8212;and one of the first examples of the &#8220;stream of consciousness&#8221; technique.<br><br>Comprising fifteen stories, <i>Dubliners</i> presents a community of mesmerizing, humorous, and haunting characters&#8212;a group portrait. The interactions among them form one long meditation on the human condition, culminating with &#8220;The Dead,&#8221; one of Joyce&#8217;s most graceful compositions centering around a character&#8217;s epiphany. A carefully woven tapestry of Dublin life at the turn of the last century, <i>Dubliners</i> realizes Joyce&#8217;s ambition to give his countrymen &#8220;one good look at themselves.&#8221;</div></div> 24276 1961 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) total:345|5:118|4:98|3:79|2:32|1:18| 345 1301 592 38 3 1 false false Sat Jul 19 02:37:33 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 02:42:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 16:54:55 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 22:44:36 -0700 2009 James Joyce's writing style - seriously - that man can do no wrong. The character Stephen really grows (obviously) but unlike other bildungsroman types - it was actually inter...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 09:22:13 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 13:01:06 -0700 2008 Dubliners to Portrait.

Dublin and vicinity is the glue that holds both books together. The stream-of-consciousness in Portrait occasionally distracts, but the novella succeeds in conveying the element of experience and the significance of partic...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:05:36 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:40:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Sep 03 09:31:08 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 20 10:36:47 -0700 2009 dubliners so far, as that's the half i've read. james joyce's collection of short stories regarding the residents of his home-city is at times brilliantly lyrical and melancholy. the collection starts off strong, and ends incredibly strong, but somewhere about 3/4 of the wa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Sep 03 13:22:59 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 13:24:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 01 11:07:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 11:08:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Aug 12 16:19:50 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 16:20:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Apr 12 20:05:49 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 20:08:04 -0700 2009 1 0 0 false false Sat Jan 03 12:32:42 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:32:42 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 26 17:59:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 18:00:33 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 22 16:51:07 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 16:51:46 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Wed Nov 25 20:55:59 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 20:56:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 09:31:55 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 09:32:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 19 12:11:07 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:11:40 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon Jan 26 11:27:03 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:27:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 16:29:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 16:30:08 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Apr 21 20:20:02 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 16:16:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 19:07:12 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 17:39:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 24 10:51:10 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 10:54:26 -0700 2008 1
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