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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) 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 modernist style entailed using dashes for dialogue rather than quotation marks. [14] He asked that they be used in the printed text, but was refused. [15] Dubliners was the only work by Joyce to use quotation marks, but dashes are now substituted in all critical and most popular editions. [16]
"The Sisters" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called Dubliners. Originally published in the Irish Homestead on 13 August 1904, "The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction.
Bloomsday performers outside Davy Byrne's pub, 2003. Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, [1] and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.
Joyce wrote to Weaver in late 1929 that he had "explained to [Stephens] all about the book, at least a great deal, and he promised me that if I found it madness to continue, in my condition, and saw no other way out, that he would devote himself, heart and soul, to the completion of it, that is the second part and the epilogue or fourth."
"Two Gallants" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. It tells the story of two Irishmen who are frustrated with their lack of achievement in life and rely on the exploitation of others to live. [1] Joyce considered the story to be one of the most important in Dubliners. [2]
James Joyce c. 1918 " Clay " is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners . It deals with the reflections of a middle-aged, unmarried woman during the course of her day.
Milly-Molly-Mandy is a set of six children's books written and illustrated by English writer Joyce Lankester Brisley published over the period 1928 to 1967. The books follow a little girl, Milly-Molly-Mandy, who wears a pink-and-white striped dress.