James Joyce James Joyce (1882 - 1941) is one of Ireland's most influential and celebrated writers. His most famous work is Ulysses (1922) which follows the movements of Leopold Bloom through a single day on June 16th, 1904. Ulysses is based on Homer�s The Odyssey. Some of Joyce's other major works include the short story collection Dubliners (1914), and novels A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce was born in Dublin on 2nd February 1882 and attended school in Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College (just up the road from the Centre) before going on to University College, then located on St Stephen's Green, where he studied modern languages. After graduating from university, Joyce went to Paris, ostensibly to study medicine, and was recalled to Dublin in April 1903 because of the illness and subsequent death of his mother. He stayed in Ireland until 1904, and in June that year he met Nora Barnacle, the Galway woman who was to become his partner and later his wife. In August 1904 the first of Joyce�s short stories was published in the Irish Homestead magazine, followed by two others, but in October Joyce and Nora left Ireland going first to Pola (now Pula, Croatia) where Joyce got a job teaching English at a Berlitz school. After he left Ireland in 1904, Joyce only made four return visits, the last of those in 1912, after which he never returned to Ireland. 1914 proved a crucial year for Joyce. With Ezra Pound�s assistance, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce�s first novel, began to appear in serial form in Harriet Weaver�s Egoist magazine in London. His collection of short stories, Dubliners, on which he had been working since 1904, was finally published, and he also wrote his only play, Exiles. It was after these successes that Joyce began to think seriously about writing the novel he had been formulating since 1907: Ulysses. With the start of World War One, Joyce and Nora, along with their two children, Giorgio and Lucia, were forced to leave Trieste and arrived in Zurich where they lived for the duration of the war. It was during this time that Joyce worked on Ulysses and included many characteristics of those around him in the characters of the book. Though Joyce wanted to settle in Trieste again after the War, the poet Ezra Pound persuaded him to come to Paris for a while, and Joyce stayed there for the next twenty years. It was in Paris that Joyce met Sylvia Beach, an American ex-pat who helped him to publish Ulysses for the first time in 1922. From 1930, after Beach had relinquished the rights to Ulysses, Joyce became very close with Paul L�on, another ex-pat living in Paris. L�on became Joyce�s business advisor and close friend and helped him to publish his final book Finnegans Wake in 1939. In 1940, when Joyce fled to the south of France ahead of the Nazi invasion, L�on returned to the Joyces� apartment in Paris to salvage their belongings and put them into safekeeping for the duration of the war. It�s thanks to L�on�s efforts that many of Joyce�s personal possessions and manuscripts still survive today. James Joyce died at the age of fifty-nine, on 13 January 1941 in Schwesterhaus vom Roten Kreuz in Zurich where he and his family had been given asylum. He is buried in Fluntern cemetery, Zurich. Source: The James Joyce Centre
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Stephen D queries the world around him, especially his school world ...Quick View
James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initial ...Quick View
The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brut ...Quick View
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radic ...Quick View
DUBLINERS is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The s ...Quick View
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By: Danis Rose , James Joyce , John Banville
01 Jun 1997 - The Lilliput Press Ltd
The text of James Joyce's "Ulysses" has been in dispute since its first publication in February 1922. Here, Danis Rose has constructed what he regards as the definitive text. This volume makes use of all the criticisms o ...Quick View
In 'Dubliners', completed when Joyce was only 25, the author produced a definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life.In 'Dubliners', completed when Joyce was only ...Quick View
The Ondt and the Gracehoper is James Joyce's peculiar and hilarious re-telling of Aesop's ancient fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. Although Aesop's fable has been illustrated many times, Joyce's unique take, presented ...Quick View
Dubliners is a wonderfully engaging and accessible collection of stories by James Joyce, an author famed for being difficult to read. This beautiful new edition was chosen as the One Book, One City title for Dublin in 20 ...Quick View
The Dublin Illustrated Edition of Ulysses, endorsed by The James Joyce Centre, meticulously recreates the 1922 text.The unique Dublin Illustrated Edition, endorsed by The James Joyce Centre, meticulously recreates the 19 ...Quick View
Ulysses by James Joyce Remastered by Robert Gogan
By: James Joyce , Robert Gogan
01 Jun 2012 - Music Ireland
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