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"Dublins" is James Joyce's masterpiece of short stories and one of the most famous short story collections in the history of Western literature. The work was published in 1914 and contains 15 short stories. It is set in Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on the daily lives of ordinary people. It uses concise and expressive brushwork to capture the glimmer of humanity in ordinary life. With a cold yet tender gaze, the author melts all kinds of things in the market into an artistic whole that is both alienated and delicate. With his unique narrative aesthetics and profound insights into human nature, he has left an indelible mark in the history of literature.

The book "Ulysses" is divided into three parts and has a total of eighteen chapters. In chronological order, it describes the daily life experiences of Leopold Bloom, a depressed and hesitant Dublin citizen and advertising salesman, in one day and night in Dublin on June 16, 1904. Joyce compared Bloom's day wandering the streets of Dublin to Ulysses (Odysseus)'s ten years at sea in Homer's epic poem, while depicting the psychology of his unfaithful wife Molly and the second male protagonist Stephen's search for a spiritual father. This book is hailed as the top 100 novels of the 20th century. Ireland also designates June 16 every year as "Bloom Day", which is the second largest holiday after the National Day.

This book is known as the pioneer work of stream-of-consciousness novels. The book is divided into eighteen chapters. Its internal structure is closely related to Homer's "The Odyssey". Each chapter has its own unique writing skills and corresponds to a story theme of "The Odyssey". The characters and plots also correspond to the "Odyssey" at different levels. In 2000, some important British and American media unanimously listed "Ulysses" as one of the most influential masterpieces in the world in the 20th century.

A great novel about spiritual paralysis and epiphany. "Dublins" was completed in 1905 and was rejected by more than 20 publishers. Later, with the help and recommendation of the American Imagist poet Ezra Pound, it was officially published in 1914. Joyce completed his writing about Dublin with fifteen exquisite and polished short stories, focusing on the most ordinary but fleeting moments that everyone has experienced. Joyce once said that the purpose of writing Dubliners was to write its own chapter in the moral and spiritual history of Ireland. But the mental state of Dubliners revealed through Joyce's keen observation can also be said to be the mental state of all mankind, especially people in modern society.

"Joyce's Letters" is the fifth of eight volumes and nine types of Joyce's collected works published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The Chinese translation has a total of 378,000 words and 516 pages, including nearly a thousand letters from the Irish writer James Joyce. It is based on the "Selected Letters of James Joyce" compiled and selected by the scholar Richard Ellman in 1975. The main content of this book is selected from the three-volume "Collected Letters of Joyce" edited by him and published from 1957 to 1966.