Bøker av James Joyce

The Squashed edition of Ulysses by James Joyce. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so, with extensive notes.Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable quotes and all the famous lines, but neatly honed down to the length of a readable short story.""Like reading the bible without all the begats"" - Prof. Jim Curtis

The story follows Leopold Bloom on a seemingly ordinary day in Dublin, during which Bloom's wife, Molly, commits adultery. This experimental novel is among the most important works of Modernist literature. It was initially deemed obscene in England and the USA for its scandalously frank, life-changing reading experience.

Dubliners is a collection of short stories related to Ireland when James Joyce lived there.

In an effort to facilitate and generate renewed scholarly interest in the play, Fargnoli and Gillespie have compiled the first and only critical edition of "Exiles." They contend that when read on its own, the play stands very much on the cutting edge of modern drama.

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, enduring perfection'. With a new introduction by Colm Toibin.

Joyce's brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Toibin

The classic and monumental work by James Joyce. One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".