On this landmark recording, James Joyce is featured reading selections from his Ulysses, which have been reconstructed and digitally remastered from a 1924 gramophone disc. Also reading from other works by Joyce are three accomplished performers: Cyril Cusack, Siobhan McKenna, and E.G. Marshall.Author Biography: James Joyce (1882-1941) revolutionized twentieth-century writing with his use of the "stream of consciousness" technique. While ingeniously innovative and experimental, he was also a keenly precise chronicler of the people, places, and sounds of his native Dublin. His other works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, and Ulysses, which is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century.
On this landmark recording, James Joyce is featured reading selections from his Ulysses, which have been reconstructed and digitally remastered from a 1924 gramophone disc. Also reading from other works by Joyce are three accomplished performers: Cyril Cusack, Siobhan McKenna, and E.G. Marshall.Author Biography: James Joyce (1882-1941) revolutionized twentieth-century writing with his use of the "stream of consciousness" technique. While ingeniously innovative and experimental, he was also a keenly precise chronicler of the people, places, and sounds of his native Dublin. His other works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, and Ulysses, which is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century.
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