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

In James Joyce's early work meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden signififances in "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" would require a knowledge of life in 19th- and 20th-century Dublin. This book presents the requisite knowledge.