James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose bold experiments with language and narrative helped transform modern literature. Born in Dublin, Joyce drew deeply on the city's streets, people, politics, religion, and social tensions, even after spending most of his adult life abroad in Trieste, Zurich, and [...] first gained major recognition with Dubliners, a collection of stories portraying everyday life in early twentieth-century Dublin. He followed it with the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the groundbreaking Ulysses, which reimagines Homer's Odyssey through a single day in Dublin. His final novel, Finnegans Wake, pushed his fascination with wordplay, myth, history, and the rhythms of speech to its furthest [...]'s work is celebrated for its psychological depth, inventive style, and extraordinary attention to language. Though his writing was often controversial and sometimes banned, he is now regarded as one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.

The Portable James Joyce - Edited by Harry Levin Editor's Introduction
Dubliners
Editor's Preface
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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Editor's Preface
Exiles
Editor's Preface
Collected Poems
Editor's Preface
Chamber Music, I to XXXVI
Pomes Penyeach:
Tilly
Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
A Flower Given to My Daughter
She Weeps Over Rahoon
Tutto è Sciolto
On the Beach at Fontana
Simples
Flood
Nightpiece
Alone
A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
Bahnhofstrasse
A Prayer

Other Poems:
The Holy Office
Gas from a Burner
Ecce Puer
FromUlysses
Editor's Preface
Nestor
Hades
The Wandering Rocks
The Sirens
Penelope
From Finnegans Wake
Editor's Preface
Here Comes Everybody
Anna Livia Plurabelle
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun

Bibliographical Note