James Joyce

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection....

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood and is notable for being the first work in which Joyce uses his innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style.....

The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and he went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey “Slicks” and Huey “Gunships”....

The first authorized, unabridged release of this timeless classic and exclusively available from Recorded Books. Ulysses records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland....

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century.

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce....

Dublin at the turn of the century provides the backdrop as Stephen Dedalus moves from town and society, towards the irrevocable decision to leave....

Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that was first published in 1914.....

Finnegans Wake is the greatest challenge in 20th-century literature. In the rich nighttime and the language of dreams, here are history, anecdote, myth, folk tale and, above all, a wondrous sense of humor....

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce that was first published in 1922. The book follows the lives of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland.

James Joyce’s landmark novel traces the course of three characters on one summer day in Dublin. With its Homeric allusions, labyrinthine digressions, and shifting narrative styles, this universal epic of the human condition achieves a singular and everlasting grandeur....

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin....

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only 25, brought his city to the world for the first time....

"The Dead" is the final short story in Joyce's 1914 collection Dubliners.

James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century....

In his autobiographical debut novel, James Joyce mirrors his own emotional and intellectual coming-of-age - from sexual awakening and upheavals of faith to fleeting epiphanies - in exploring the influences that help to shape an artistic identity....

This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names....

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century....

Joyce’s experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds....

The Irish Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 10 classic works of fiction and poetry by Irish authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators.