This second edition is revised and enlarged from Notes for Joyce: "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

Rev. ed. of: Notes for Joyce: an annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses, 1974. "Teaches more than how to read a particular novel; it teaches us more profoundly how to read anything. This, I think, is the book's main virtue.

For Gifford, the profoundest explorer of the human consciousness, time, and memory is James Joyce and in its range of reference, wit, and humanity the spirit of Joyce permeates this book.