Joyce Annotated: Notes for 'Dubliners' and 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'

Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce are complex works that require an encyclopedic knowledge of life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dublin to fully appreciate their hidden meanings.

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