Joyce James
41) Bloom
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All of life in a single day takes place on the morning of June 16, 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. Leopold Bloom is a tragic figure who walks the streets of Dublin while his wife Molly, commits adultery with barely the regard to try to conceal it. Intermingled is Stephen Dedalus, an English poet who is in the service of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Take a journey into the lives and minds of these three characters in this enthralling story of love, loss,...
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Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly with a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the...
45) The dead
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English
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Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.