James Joyce - Gas From A Burner - read by Alison McKenna

In September of 1912 John Falconer of Dublin publisher Maunsel & Co burnt the 1,000 and only copies of the first run of James Joyce's Dubliners. Apparently this act of destruction was driven by a fit of conscience and concern over the content of some of the stories. Joyce traveled to Dublin to rescue the printing and failed. On his return to his continental home, an embittered Joyce penned this scathing and wickedly humorous poem skewering his would be publisher. He would never return to Ireland. Dubliners would finally find a published in London almost two years later.