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The James Joyce Library

The James Joyce Library

By: James Joyce
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 Step softly into The James Joyce Library, where the pages breathe and the city murmurs beneath every word. Here the books unfold aloud - Dublin’s streets, its wandering minds, its sudden flashes of revelation - carried on the human voice as river-current and memory entwine. From first sentence to final cadence, each episode invites the listener to drift through language itself: playful, searching, awake to the music of ordinary life. Open your ears, and walk awhile among stories that refuse to stand still.Public domain
Episodes
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 2

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 2
    Apr 9 2026
    In which Stephen Wanders through the familiar precincts of college, exchanging barbed banter and earnest discourse with his comrades on the nature of art, beauty, and nationality, his thoughts often veering between the lofty and the mundane with a quietly biting wit. Amidst playful jostling and deepening reflections upon the soul's birth and the artist’s quest, he wrestles with youthful passion and philosophical musings until, alone at dawn, a fragile moment of poetic inspiration kindles within him a luminous longing that flickers and fades with the morning light.
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    47 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 1

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 5 Part 1
    Apr 7 2026
    In which a young man, caught between the loathsome domesticities and clogged lanes of a sodden cityscape, walks its sodden streets reflecting on ashes of learning and entwined friendships under the greying light of morning; and in the shadowed theatre of a university, he engages with the austere austerity of a dean, the bustling pulse of student life, and the stirrings of uneasy discourse about art, faith, and society.
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    55 mins
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 4

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 4
    Apr 5 2026
    In which the devout youth navigates the intricate rhythms of piety and doubt, wrestling with the solemn call to the priesthood and the restless allure of a freer existence beyond sacred walls. The day wanes over sea and sand as he contemplates his place between the ordered life he is prepared to leave and the wild beckoning of his own soul’s flight.
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    58 mins
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