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Ulysses
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Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do... »
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
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This book contains some of the most horridly tedious prose in the English language. Joyce is known for his stylistic innovations, yet his books go mostly unread because they art monumentally dull. Allegedly, the author could account for every line in his books. Unfortunately, he could not account for how soporific his prose is. This is one of those... »
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Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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I don't think that Finnegans Wake itself makes so many so angry. Rather, the offending party is that tiresome brood of sanctimonious and disgustingly pedantic clowns collectively insisting, in a manner devoid of decency and respect for the common man, that it is the greatest and most important piece ever written, that somehow the entire history of the ... »
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Dubliners
My instructor specified a certain edition of this work, and I found it on Amazon for a song. It arrived in plenty of time for use in my Celtic Literature... »
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Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
Because "Ulysses" is so imposing with its epic length and pages of solid, tiny text I decided to get my feet wet with "Dubliners," which is not quite half... »
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Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition)
This Norton critical edition of The Dubliners is a helpful teachers aid and discussion guide as well as an annotated text of The Dubliners.
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
There is an episode of the British TV series "Black Books" (a surreal comedy set in a second hand bookshop) where Manny says to his cruel employer Bernard... »
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