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RE: THE STEEMIT BOOK CLUB PLAN (V1.0)
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man looks like an interesting read, be wary of Gutenberg as a translated version of Plato uses the word sillybillies! Any other books that you suggest reading to get a grasp of the context and time of James Joyce?
I'd say the best prep would be to read Dubliners and Portrait (which are very different than Ulysses). And if you're hardcore, Richard Ellman's biography of Joyce.
Thank you for the response, looks like I am going to have to hit up my local second hand bookstore. If you haven't discovered them already pelican books are amazing, they are penguin books non-fiction novels or essays. When I ever see them I buy them on the spot as they are severely underrated For example G Lowes Dickinson for Plato and Socrates, an amazing analysis of Socrates' Dialogues and Plato's Republic among others of their work.