{"product_id":"2026100007962-secondhand-a-readers-guide-to-james-joyce","title":"A Reader's Guide To James Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor any reader who has stood at the threshold of James Joyce's labyrinthine prose and wondered how to proceed, William York Tindall's authoritative companion is the essential key. This scholarly yet accessible guide systematically unpacks the full breadth of Joyce's canon — from the deceptively simple stories of Dubliners and the autobiographical arc of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the towering complexity of Ulysses and the dreamlike linguistic universe of Finnegans Wake — illuminating the symbols, structures, and cultural references that make each work a masterpiece.\n\nTindall writes with the precision of a seasoned academic and the passion of a true devotee, presenting Joyce not merely as a difficult modernist to be endured, but as a profoundly humane and inventive artist to be savoured. His critical framework draws on biography, mythology, and close textual analysis to reveal the intricate patterns woven beneath Joyce's surface narratives. A landmark work of Joycean scholarship, this guide remains as vital today as when it was first published — leaving the reader not with answers alone, but with a richer set of questions to carry back into the texts themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130698932443,"sku":"2026100007962-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/37ee8700-f339-4898-8763-566b25192858.png?v=1786588813","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007962-secondhand-a-readers-guide-to-james-joyce","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}