Tag: James Joyce

The Dead Audiobook

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The Dead
James JOYCE (1882 – 1941)
A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce’s transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. “The Dead” is taken from Joyce’s collection of short stories Dubliners. (summary by Iremonger)
Genre(s): Short Stories
Language: English

 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man audiobook

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man audiobook by James Joyce (1882-1941) This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man. (Summary by Peter Bobbe) (FULL Audiobook)   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Cover to the first edition, B. W. Huebsch, 1916 Author James Joyce Language English Genre Novel Publication date 29 December Read more [...]

The Dead audiobook

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The Dead audiobook by James Joyce (1882-1941) This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife. While the party is festive, full of dancing, drinking, and eating, it is also pervaded by political, religious, and sexual tensions, as well as memories of loss. When Gabriel and his wife go home at the end of the night, she reveals Read more [...]

Chamber Music audiobook

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Chamber Music audiobook by James Joyce (1882-1941) Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). Although the poems did not sell well, they received some critical acclaim. Ezra Pound admired the "delicate temperament" of these early poems, while Yeats described Read more [...]

Ulysses audiobook

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Ulysses audiobook by James Joyce (1882-1941) Still considered one of the most radical works of fiction of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the narrative follows Leopold Bloom and a number of other characters through an ordinary day, twenty four hours, in Dublin, on June 16, 1904. The text is dense and difficult, but perfectly suited to an oral reading, filled with language tricks, puns and jokes, stream of consciousness, Read more [...]