"James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is one of the twentieth century's great coming-of-age novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides explanatory notes to deepen the reader's appreciation for Joyce's masterpiece." ""Backgrounds and Contexts" is topically organized: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." Fourteen illustrations accompany the documents." ""Criticism" begins with John Paul Riquelme's overview of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man's structure. Twelve diverse interpretations of his work follow, by Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Helene Cixous, John Paul Riquelme, Karen Lawrence, Maud Ellmann, Bonnie Kime Scott, Joseph Valente, Marian Eide, Pericles Lewis, adn Jonathan Mulrooney. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.
Robin Jacques Book order (chronological)
Robin Jacques was a British artist and book illustrator known for his prolific work. Despite having no formal art training, he taught himself to draw and developed a distinctive style that graced over 100 novels and children's books from the 1940s to the 1980s. He notably illustrated fairy-tale compilations, bringing magical worlds to life with his unique visual interpretations. Jacques also contributed significantly to the literary landscape as the art editor for *Strand* magazine and later shared his expertise by teaching at several art colleges.
The Penguin book of Limericks
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.
Dubliners
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.' From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.