Simply Joyce

Yet, while he left his native country behind, he never stopped writing about it. He published his well-known short story collection, Dubliners, in 1914 and the coming-of-age novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man two years later. In Simply Joyce, author Margot Norris strips the mystery from Joyce's groundbreaking books by offering a clear introduction to why and how they were produced. Both Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist are included on almost every list of the greatest novels of all time. Generally considered one of the greatest modern writers, James Joyce (1882 - 1941) grew up in Dublin, Ireland, but spent his adult life in the European cities of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris. Simply Joyce shows why this is so and, for those who have never had the plea