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James Joyce(1882-1941), an Irish poet and novelist, was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His works include Ulysses, Dubliners,and Finnegans Wake. Karl Ove Knausgaard(foreword)is the author of the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, a global literary phenomenon that has won numerous international literary awards and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He was born in 1968 in Oslo, Norway, and now lives in Sweden. Seamus Deane (introduction and notes), professor of English and the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the general editor of the works of James Joyce for Penguin Classics. Roman Muradov(cover illustrator) has done illustrations for an array of clients, includingTheNew Yorker,TheNew York Times,Vogue, NPR, and Dark Horse Comics. He lives in San Francisco.
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. -- H. G. Wells [Mr. Joyce is] concerned at all costs to reveal the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its myriad message through the brain, he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, though it be probability or coherence or any other of the handrails to which we cling for support when we set our imaginations free. -- Virginia Woolf [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will] remain a permanent part of English literature. -- Ezra Pound
