A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) EPUB

Widely regarded as the greatest stylist of twentieth-century English literature, James Joyce deserves the term revolutionary. 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, successesA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dublinersare here brought together in one volume. Both works reflect Joyces lifelong love-hate relationship with Dublin and the Irish culture that formed him.

In the semi-autobiographical Portrait, 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 books inventive style is apparent from its opening pages, a record of an infants impressions of the world around himand one of the first examples of the stream of consciousness technique.

Comprising fifteen stories, Dubliners presents a community of mesmerizing, humorous, and haunting charactersa group portrait. The interactions among them form one long meditation on the human condition, culminating with The Dead, one of Joyces most graceful compositions centering around a characters epiphany. A carefully woven tapestry of Dublin life at the turn of the last century, Dubliners realizes Joyces ambition to give his countrymen one good look at themselves.