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James Joyce


Born
in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
February 02, 1882

Died
January 13, 1941

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Genre
Fiction, Poetry

Influences
Thomas Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Gustave Flaubert, Laurence Sterne, Dante, ...more


A profound influence of literary innovations of Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on modern fiction includes his works, Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).

Sylvia Beach published the first edition of Ulysses of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in 1922.


John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman and father of James Joyce, nine younger surviving siblings, and two other siblings who died of typhoid, failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of other professions, including politics and tax collecting. The Roman Catholic Church dominated life of Mary Jane Murray, an accomplished pianist and his mother. In spite of poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class façade.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 556,215 ratings · 38,153 reviews · 1,978 distinct works • Similar authors
Dubliners
3.83 avg rating — 173,696 ratings — published 1914 — 3485 editions
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A Portrait of the Artist as...
3.64 avg rating — 162,992 ratings — published 1916 — 3638 editions
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Ulysses
3.76 avg rating — 136,980 ratings — published 1922 — 3057 editions
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The Dead
3.97 avg rating — 24,161 ratings — published 1914 — 13 editions
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Finnegans Wake
3.68 avg rating — 13,557 ratings — published 1939 — 323 editions
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Araby
3.63 avg rating — 7,745 ratings — published 1914 — 39 editions
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3.93 avg rating — 7,019 ratings — published 1914 — 56 editions
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Eveline
3.61 avg rating — 2,746 ratings — published 1904 — 24 editions
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Exiles
3.49 avg rating — 2,227 ratings — published 1914 — 3 editions
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Chamber Music
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Series by James Joyce

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يوليسيس- الجزء اﻷول يوليسيس- الجزء الثاني يوليسيس- الجزء الثالث يوليسيس- الجزء الرابع
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Finnegans Wake. Libro primo... Finnegans Wake: libro primo... Finnegans Wake: libro secon... Finnegans Wake: libro secon... Finnegans Wake. Libro terzo... Finnegans Wake. Libro terzo...
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“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce
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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses
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“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
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October 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1934, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, 209 pages
 
  26 votes, 19.3%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  24 votes, 17.8%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
 
  16 votes, 11.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

1958, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.9%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.2%

1971, Maurice by E.M. Forster, 256 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.7%

1997, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1972, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 165 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1963, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 564 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1905, The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub, 352 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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