Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood & coming of age in Ireland at the turn of the century, his childhood, sexual awakening, intellectual development & revolt against Catholicism, remains one of the key works of modern literature.
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[This] novel charts the intellectual, moral, and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus, from his childhood listening to his father's stories, through his schooldays and adolescence to the brink of adulthood and independence, and his awakening as an artist. Growing up in a Cathol…
For this Oxford World's Classics edition, an eminent Joyce scholar has written an Introduction and notes, which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce's artistry.
For this Oxford World's Classics edition, an eminent Joyce scholar has written an Introduction and notes, which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce's artistry.
A road trip through a post-apocalyptic America where the dreams of some can change reality, the pecking order is according to how lucky you are, and dog meat has become gourmet food. The protagonist, a youth named Chaos, makes the trip with a fur-covered girlfriend to find their…
A road trip through a post-apocalyptic America where the dreams of some can change reality, the pecking order is according to how lucky you are, and dog meat has become gourmet food. The protagonist, a youth named Chaos, makes the trip with a fur-covered girlfriend to find their…
During the summer of 1918, as the senior class at a boy's academy in provincial Hungary prepares for graduation, they live in a ghost town from which all able-bodied men have gone as they confront the reality of war and their own forthcoming involvement in it.
A touchingly funny tale from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe. Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes.
Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes.
Homesick law student returns to his North Carolina home to visit his all female family but finds he is of little use to them in solving their individual problems.
A touchingly funny tale from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe. Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes. "Phenomenal"…
A touchingly funny tale from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe. Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes. "Phenomenal"…
"Based on the popular blog, Books of Adam is a hilarious collection of essays about one young man's attempt to get his life together."--
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburg…