My copy of Dubliners is so old it has eight-five cents printed on the cover—though I can barely read the price, it's so worn from use. It's a wonderful collection of stories that you can.... more

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I love the way this novel starts. If you're going to do a biographical story, why not start at the very beginning with the perceptions of an infant? Well, baby tuckoo grows up.... more

Ulysses

I've read this book five times. It's not that I love it so much. I don't. It may be because I've heard so often that it's the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Or perhaps because.... more

Finnegans Wake

"Science split the atom and Joyce split the word." This summary of progress in the first half of the twentieth century has often been stated in reference to Finnegans Wake.... more

James Joyce

THE AUTHOR | THE WORKS | VIEWS AND QUOTES

First publication in book form

1907

Chamber Music Thirty-six poems

1914

Dubliners Fifteen stories

"The Sisters", "An Encounter", "Araby", "Eveline", "After the Race", "Two Gallants", "The Boarding House", "A Little Cloud", "Counterparts", "Clay", "A Painful Case", "Ivy Day in the Committee Room", "A Mother", "Grace", ""The Dead"

1916

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Novel

1918

Exiles Play

1922

Ulysses Novel

1927

Pomes Penyeach Thirteen poems

1936

Collected Poems Poems

1939

Finnegans Wake Novel