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About James Joyce
Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He helped shape modernism and is widely regarded as a major writer of the 20th century. He is best known for Ulysses, a novel that reworks episodes from Homer’s Odyssey through a range of literary styles, especially stream of consciousness. Other well-known works include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Finnegans Wake. He also wrote two books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
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Books by James Joyce
Dubliners
2019
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2018
Ulysses
2013
Finnegans Wake
2000
The Dead
2011