Literature
Ireland's classics, to read in full — here, with no account and no ads. Joyce's Dublin, Wilde's portrait and the vampire a Dubliner gave the world.
Novel · 1922 · public domain
Ulysses
One ordinary Dublin day — 16 June 1904 — reinvented as the greatest novel of the 20th century. The complete text, in the original English.
Read in full →18 episodes
Stories · 1914 · public domain
Dubliners
Fifteen lives in one city, each stopped at the moment it might have turned. Ends with «The Dead» — the last snow falling over all of Ireland.
Read in full →15 stories
Novel · 1916 · public domain
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus grows up in five chapters, and the prose grows up with him: baby talk on page one, philosophy by the end.
Read in full →5 chapters
Novel · 1891 · public domain
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A portrait ages so its owner never has to. Wilde's only novel, complete with the preface he wrote to answer the people who called it immoral.
Read in full →20 chapters
Novel · 1897 · public domain
Dracula
A Dublin civil servant invented the modern vampire without ever seeing Transylvania. Told entirely in diaries, letters and clippings — the first novel that reads like a case file.
Read in full →27 chapters
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