James Joyce

6 summariesFiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.

Books by James Joyce

6 books available

James Joyce's Dubliners
James Joyce
3.8 (179k) average on GoodreadsFiction
Fifteen linked stories show turn-of-the-century Dublin through lives marked by desire, deceit, and despair, ending with the reflective 'The Dead.'
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
3.6 (128k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus, Joyce crafts the journey of a young man grappling with Irish Catholicism and nationalism as he forges his own path toward artistic freedom.
Dubliners
James Joyce
3.9 (123k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Fifteen realistic tales by James Joyce examine the stagnant lives of early 20th-century Dubliners, showing their spiritual and emotional traps through moments of sudden, often unsettling, insight.
Ulysses
James Joyce
3.7 (111k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
This novel follows an ordinary day in Dublin, 1904, where everyday events become myth through new prose, stream-of-consciousness, and language that changes what a novel can be.
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Enter a swirling stream of dream-logic and rich language, where Dublin's subconscious mind awakens to betrayals, humor, and echoes of human history.
Eveline
James Joyce
3.6 (1k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
Trapped by the ghosts of duty and a promise to her dead mother, Eveline Dublin dreams of escape with a sailor to Buenos Aires, only to be paralyzed by fear and the suffocating familiarity of her impoverished home.