In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to life Joyce's short stories from Dubliners, as well as selections from the brilliant A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the dream-like Chamber Music. Included here are:

• " A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

• " Strings in the Earth and Air"

• " The Twilight Turns"

• " The Sisters"

• " At That Hour"

• " An Encounter"

• " When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven"

• " Araby"

• " Lean Out of the Window"

• " I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be"

• " My Love Is in a Light Attire"

• " Who Goes Amid the Greenwood"

• " Winds of May"

• " Bright Cap and Streamers"

• " Two Gallants"

• " Bid Adieu"

• " What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon"

• " My Dove, My Beautiful One"

• " Eveline"

• " From Dewey Dreams"

• " O Cool Is the Valley Now"

• " Clay"

• " Because Your Voice Was at My Side"

• " Be Not Sad"

• " In the Dark Pine-Wood"

• " He Who Hath Glory Lost"

• " Of That So Sweet Imprisonment"

• " A Painful Case"

• " This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart"

• " Silently She' s Combing"

• " Lightly Come or Lightly Go"

• " Rain Has Fallen All the Day"

• " Now, O Now in This Brown Land"

• " Sleep Now, O Sleep Now"

• " All Day I Hear the Noise of Water"

• " The Dead"