Everyone is familiar with James Joyce, even those who are not literary enthusiasts. Even now, a century after they were first published, his books are still read and studied, and both readers and reviewers have praised them. They stand out due to the distinctive way in which they convey the modern man's anxieties, conflicts, and uncertainties about his place in the world through the interesting form of the stream of consciousness. Joyce undoubtedly made the greatest contribution to modernist writing. Joyce is regarded as the author of two masterpieces, Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, both of which are included in this lovely hardbound edition with gilded borders and lovely endpapers.