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James Joyce (1) (1882–1941)

Author of Ulysses

For other authors named James Joyce, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin. Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before show more marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by James Joyce

Ulysses (1922) 23,954 copies
Dubliners (1914) 19,570 copies
Finnegans Wake (1939) 5,302 copies
The Portable James Joyce (1947) 1,041 copies
The Dead (1914) 898 copies
Stephen Hero (1944) 696 copies
Exiles (1918) 617 copies
The Essential James Joyce (1948) 321 copies
Six Great Modern Short Novels (1954) — Contributor — 276 copies
Giacomo Joyce (1900) 271 copies
Chamber Music (1971) 255 copies
Collected Poems (1937) 238 copies
Pomes Penyeach (1927) 195 copies
A Shorter Finnegans Wake (1966) 152 copies
The Works of James Joyce (1965) 129 copies
Ulysses II (1966) 122 copies
The Cats of Copenhagen (2012) 121 copies
Ulysses I (1966) 116 copies
Letters of James Joyce (1957) 109 copies
Anna Livia Plurabelle (1928) 108 copies
The Cat and the Devil (1936) 100 copies
Poems and Exiles (1992) 89 copies
Poems and Shorter Writings (1991) 79 copies
Araby (2007) 74 copies
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2 (2020) — Contributor — 70 copies
Introducing James Joyce (1942) 48 copies
Finnegans Wake H.C.E. (1939) 35 copies
Eveline [short story] (1990) 31 copies
Ulysses in Nighttown (1958) 29 copies
The Little Review "Ulysses" (2015) 25 copies
James Joyce in Padua (1977) 24 copies
Brieven aan Nora (1976) 23 copies
The James Joyce Collection (1996) 23 copies
Ulysses / Dubliners (2013) 23 copies
Grace (1976) 21 copies
Finn's Hotel (1993) 20 copies
On Ibsen (1998) 20 copies
Epiphanies (1956) 19 copies
Joyce: Poems and a Play (2014) 19 copies
Racconti e romanzi (1974) 16 copies
Ulisse. Guida alla lettura (1961) 15 copies
Dubliners: A Selection (1971) 13 copies
An Encounter [short story] (1982) 13 copies
Stories from six authors (1960) — Contributor — 11 copies
Os Mortos (2017) 9 copies
Letters of James Joyce, Volume 2 (1966) — Author — 8 copies
Dubliners Pt.2 (1999) 8 copies
Poemas Manzanas (1973) 7 copies
A Painful Case (2012) 7 copies
Molly Bloom (1994) 7 copies
Clay (2012) 7 copies
Counterparts (2014) 6 copies
Maran och gracehoppet (2002) 6 copies
James Joyce Letters, Volumes II And III (1966) — Author — 6 copies
A Little Cloud (2012) 6 copies
Dubliners (part 1) (1999) 6 copies
A Mother (2012) 5 copies
Exílios e poemas (2022) 5 copies
Cartes : antologia (2013) 5 copies
Ausgewählte Schriften. (1984) 5 copies
Retrato del joven artista (2022) 5 copies
Cartas escogidas (1982) 5 copies
Best-loved Joyce (2017) 5 copies
After the Race (2014) 5 copies
Reading Classics : James Joyce : Dubliners (1995) — Writer — 5 copies
Cartas a Nora (2012) 4 copies
Lettere e saggi (2016) 4 copies
Ulises Volume I (1979) 4 copies
The Sisters (2012) 4 copies
Oda Muzigi (2011) 4 copies
James Joyce: Poems (2014) 4 copies
Cuentos y prosas breves (2022) 3 copies
Els Morts (2021) 3 copies
POESIAS COMPLETAS. (1987) 3 copies
De döda (2017) 3 copies
De santos e sábios (2012) 3 copies
Poesie e prose (1992) 3 copies
Listy (1986) 3 copies
Ulysses : X 3 copies
Pisma estetyczne (2021) 2 copies
James Joyce Gift Box (1994) 2 copies
Prosa (Quarto) (2010) 2 copies
James Joyce: "Dubliners" (1982) 2 copies
Relatos de Dublineses (2014) 2 copies
Reflections of Ireland (1992) 2 copies
Complete Works 2 copies
Daniel Defoe 2 copies
Kopenhag'in Kedileri (2016) 2 copies
Werke in sechs Bänden. (1987) 2 copies
The Best of James Joyce (2016) 2 copies
POÈMES (1967) 2 copies
Одисей (2020) 1 copy
No title 1 copy
Ulises T2 1 copy
[Ulisse] [1! 1 copy
Kedi ile Seytan (2012) 1 copy
Ölüler (2017) 1 copy
Nora'ya Mektuplar (2018) 1 copy
Six Stories 1 copy
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Contributor — 1 copy
Pirandello, Joyce, Brecht — Author — 1 copy
El gat i el diable (1993) 1 copy
JAMES JOYCE - GORMAN (1948) 1 copy
Kamarazene 1 copy
Poetry (2022) 1 copy
James Joyce's Dublin (1950) 1 copy
The dead 1 copy
Dei døde (2017) 1 copy
Música de cambra (2016) 1 copy
I morti 1 copy
Φανερώσεις (1994) 1 copy
Kammarmusik : dikter (1982) 1 copy
Selected Short Stories (1999) 1 copy
Joyce:Collected Poems (1957) 1 copy
ULISE VOL2 1 copy

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) — Contributor, some editions — 39,222 copies
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contributor — 1,242 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Contributor — 760 copies
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Contributor — 675 copies
The Book of Fantasy (1940) — Contributor — 601 copies
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 510 copies
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 443 copies
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1967) — Contributor — 430 copies
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 388 copies
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Contributor — 338 copies
Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (1962) — Contributor, some editions — 333 copies
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Contributor, some editions — 264 copies
The World's Greatest Short Stories (2006) — Contributor — 264 copies
A World of Great Stories (1947) 259 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Contributor — 193 copies
Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) (1972) — Contributor — 160 copies
Short Novels of the Masters (1948) — Contributor — 152 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contributor — 149 copies
Great Irish Short Stories (1964) — Contributor — 142 copies
Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (1999) — Contributor — 137 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 129 copies
Irish Tales of Terror (1988) — Contributor — 125 copies
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Contributor, some editions — 118 copies
Classic Irish Short Stories (1957) 117 copies
Great Irish Tales of Fantasy and Myth (1994) — Contributor — 105 copies
The Imagist Poem (1963) — Contributor, some editions — 101 copies
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contributor, some editions — 98 copies
Great Irish Detective Stories (1993) — Contributor — 89 copies
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contributor — 84 copies
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Contributor, some editions — 74 copies
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contributor — 66 copies
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Contributor — 64 copies
Elements of Fiction (1968) — Contributor — 63 copies
Great Irish Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (2005) — Contributor — 59 copies
The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (1992) — Contributor — 52 copies
Art of Fiction (1967) — Contributor — 51 copies
Faber Book of Ballads (1965) — Contributor — 51 copies
Modern Short Stories (1939) — Contributor — 49 copies
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Contributor — 46 copies
Modern Irish Short Stories (1957) — Contributor — 42 copies
Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural (1992) — Contributor — 39 copies
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contributor — 39 copies
Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (1969) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (1996) — Author, some editions — 25 copies
One World of Literature (1992) — Contributor — 24 copies
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contributor — 22 copies
Wild Night Company: Irish Tales of Terror (1970) — Contributor — 17 copies
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contributor — 16 copies
Great Classic Stories II: Eighteen Unabridged Classics (2010) — Contributor — 15 copies
Uomini che non ho sposato (2016) — Contributor — 15 copies
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contributor — 13 copies
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contributor — 13 copies
31 Stories (1960) — Contributor — 12 copies
Des Imagistes: An Anthology (1914) — Contributor — 11 copies
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Contributor — 9 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 8 copies
Survivors: Series Three (2015) — Narrator — 8 copies
The Caedmon Short Story Collection (2001) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Story Survey (1953) — Contributor — 6 copies
Modern Short Stories in English (Literature for Life) (1993) — Contributor — 4 copies
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Contributor — 3 copies
Stories of Horror and Suspense: An Anthology (1977) — Contributor — 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies
Contact collection of contemporary writers — Contributor — 1 copy
Modern Choice 2 — Contributor — 1 copy
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 1 copy
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contributor — 1 copy
Travesties [theatre programme] — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius
Birthdate
1882-02-02
Date of death
1941-01-13
Burial location
Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich, Switzerland
Gender
male
Nationality
Ireland
Country (for map)
Ireland
Birthplace
Dublin, Ireland
Place of death
Zurich, Switzerland
Cause of death
perforated ulcer
Places of residence
Dublin, Ireland
Paris, France
Trieste, Italy
Zurich, Switzerland
Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland (show all 7)
Pula, Croatia (then Austria-Hungary)
Education
University College Dublin
Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare
Belvedere College, Dublin
Occupations
novelist
short-story writer
teacher
singer
Relationships
Joyce, Stanislaus (brother)
Organizations
The Imagists
Awards and honors
Feis Ceoil bronze medal (singing; 1904)
Short biography
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He was born in Dublin into a middle-class family, and briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere. He went on to attend University College Dublin.

In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle.

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Discussions

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James Joyce in Geeks who love the Classics (December 2021)
James Joyce: Dubliners in Literary Centennials (April 2014)
James Joyce Legacy Library in Legacy Libraries (September 2013)
The challenge that is Ulysses in Literary Snobs (February 2012)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in Someone explain it to me... (September 2011)
Happy Bloomsday, everybody! in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (June 2011)
Allusions to Ulysses in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (May 2009)

Reviews

This is hard work.
 
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arturovictoriano | 375 other reviews | Mar 14, 2024 |
I found this collection of Joyce's short stories less compelling and insightful than I had expected, and of variable quality and impact.
 
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sfj2 | 223 other reviews | Mar 10, 2024 |
It took me three tries, spanning about 15 years, but with this last effort, I finally finished the book. I had hoped to feel completion came with an understanding of what Joyce set out to achieve. But alas, that was not the case.
 
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