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Money - and the social effects of having it or not - is too big a theme in peoples daily lives to be ignored by literature. The writers gave the most varied interpretations and looked from the most different angles to the human relationship with money - but the final thought is always up to the reader.The critic August Nemo selected seven classic short stories on this subject:- The Money Box by W.W. Jacobs- Mammon and the Archer by O. Henry- After the Race by James Joyce- The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence- Filboid Studge by Saki- Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky

First published in 1916, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is James Joyces first novel and a milestone of modern literary history. It is the origin of many of the post-modern techniques he refined in later works such as "Finnegans Wake" and "Ulysses".The novel describes the emotional and mental development of the main protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from childhood to independent artist. Stephen grows up in the deeply nationalistic and religious culture of Ireland. During his time at Jesuit schools and university, he struggles to find his own identity and break free of the culture of his childhood. He eventually leaves the church, university, his parents and his country in order to find his true self.The novel is strongly autobiographical, Stephens development and experiences are, to a large extent, similar to Joyces own. On the other hand, the style develops in line with the character. While, initially, the language is childish and naive, it changes to increasingly academic and intellectual the older Stephen gets.

James Joyces final and experimental novel "Finnegans Wake" is considered a revolutionary masterpiece. First published in 1939, this comic novel is a classic of modern Irish literature. Written over the course of nearly two decades, Joyce attempted to create a nocturnal, dreamlike state. The dreams relive major conflicts from both history and mythology. "Finnegans Wake" is considered one of the most difficult works of fiction written in English."Finnegans Wake" is a complex novel that blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive idea of the novel, inspired by the 18th-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, is that history is cyclical. To demonstrate this, the book ends with the first half of the first sentence of the novel. Thus, the last line is actually part of the first line, and the first line a part of the last line. The plot itself is difficult to follow, as the novel explores a number of fractured story lines. The main tension, however, comes from the juxtaposition of reality and dream, which is achieved through changing characters and settings. During the day, Mr. and Mrs. Porter live above their pub in Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin. They live a normal, boring life. They are the parents of twin boys named Kevin and Jerry. They also have a daughter named Isabel, nicknamed Issy.The characters names and the setting change when Mr. and Mrs. Porter enter their dreamworld. Their fantastical dream life sharply contrasts with their banal daytime existence. The land of dreams starts in the upstairs bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Porters home in Chapelizod.In the dreams, the family becomes the Earwicker family and takes on many different names...

James Joyce - Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the ear

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"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own." James Joyce, in a letter to his brother With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study in English-speaking classrooms.

Obra fundamental de la literatura universal, considerada obra maestra y genial, constantemente citada y admirada como obra de referencia por todos los escritores. Se publicó por primera vez en París

Na virada do século XX, o coração da Irlanda bate no peito dos personagens que percorrem as ruas de Dublin. Vidas comuns que personificam o declínio não apenas econômico, mas moral, com o qual o país