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1) Ulysses
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Language
English
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Description
James Joyce pays homage to Homer's Odyssey, drawing on many of the Greek poet's themes with this eighteen-part novel. Set in 1922 Ireland, when the city of Dublin was rife with social unrest and radical nationalism, Ulysses chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he navigates the city on his usual routine. However, his disdain for violence, indifference for Irish independence, and his embitterment for his adulterous wife leave Bloom in a...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xxxv, 411 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dubliners: A sequence of stories depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin. The frustrations of childhood, disappointments of adolescence and mystery of sexual awakening are related with clarity and sensitivity.
A portrait of the artist as a young man: This novel by James Joyce shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916. The book's treatment of the minutiae of daily life was found indecorous and its central character unappealing....
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