Ireland

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 James Joyce 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 James Joyce 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 James Joyce 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 Oscar Wilde 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 Bram Stoker 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
More classics, soon. · Gulliver's Travels · The Importance of Being Earnest · Castle Rackrent…

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