Facts about Irish Literature: The Works of James Joyce

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   Over 7,000 pages of Joyce's manuscripts and letters are housed in the National Library of Ireland, including handwritten drafts of Ulysses with extensive revisions and annotations.

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   The little magazine The Little Review serialized Ulysses in installments from 1918 until a 1921 obscenity ruling halted publication in the United States.

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   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel, traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus.

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   Dubliners, Joyce's 1914 short story collection, ends with the celebrated story The Dead, widely regarded as one of the greatest short stories in the English language.

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   Finnegans Wake, Joyce's final novel, is written in a dense, multilingual dream language that blends dozens of languages into portmanteau words.

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   James Joyce's novel Ulysses, published in 1922, follows its characters through a single day in Dublin on June 16, 1904.

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