This volume continues the masterly unabridged reading of the last six short stories in James Joyce's Dubliners . Included here are: ""Clay,"" ""A Painful Case,"" ""Ivy Day in the Committee Room,"" ""A Mother,"" ""Grace,"" and perhaps the most well-known of all the stories, ""The Dead."" Jim Norton has established a special reputation for his recordings of Joyce's work for Naxos AudioBooks. "It was a wise choice to cast Jim Norton as the performer of this collection of James Joyce's short stories. A native Dubliner himself, Norton provides a masterful palette of characterizations...with technique that no one but a true local could bring. Irish music is interspersed throughout the production, lending an even more authentic feel." -- "AudioFile" James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short-story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.