James Joyce

Encounter one of the most revolutionary and challenging minds in the history of literature with James Joyce (1882–1941), the Irish author whose work permanently transformed the possibilities of the novel and the English language itself. Joyce's writing captures the full texture of human consciousness — its digressions, its poetry, its vulgarity, its moments of sudden, piercing beauty — with an ambition and technical mastery that has never been surpassed. His essential works include Dubliners, a collection of short stories of crystalline perfection; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a lyrical coming-of-age novel; and Ulysses, widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century, following Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin on 16 June 1904. A writer who demands everything — and gives everything in return.