Robin Jacques was een Britse kunstenaar en boekenillustrator die bekend stond om zijn productieve werk. Hoewel hij geen formele kunstopleiding had, leerde hij zichzelf tekenen en ontwikkelde een kenmerkende stijl die meer dan 100 romans en kinderboeken van de jaren 1940 tot 1980 sierde. Hij illustreerde met name sprookjesverzamelingen, waarmee hij magische werelden tot leven wekte met zijn unieke visuele interpretaties. Jacques leverde ook een belangrijke bijdrage aan het literaire landschap als artdirector van het tijdschrift *Strand* en deelde later zijn expertise door les te geven aan verschillende kunstacademies.
Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood and coming of age in Ireland at the turn of the century, his childhood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt against Catholicism, remains one of the key works of modern literature.
Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.
James Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the author's development as a writer, and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form. Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth-century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con-men, from a young woman's refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a man's moment of clarity during an annual dance party, these stories offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era which has all but disappeared.