Dec 30, 2009

Eveline | What Do I Read Next?

“Eveline” is just one story in a collection of stories, Dubliners, by James Joyce. Many of the other stories remain among the most influential short stories of all time. The final tale, “The Dead,” was filmed, with painstaking detail to the original, by John Houston. The movie is an excellent supplement to the book.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the most accessible of Joyce’s other works. The prose is reminiscent of the last few pages of “The Dead,” the final story in Dubliners. More experimental than Dubliners, the...