Books by James Joyce

Portrait of James Joyce

James Joyce stands as one of the defining figures of twentieth‑century literature, renowned for his daring use of language and form. From the intimate realism of Dubliners to the stream‑of‑consciousness brilliance of Ulysses, his work captures the spirit and complexity of modern life through the streets and voices of Dublin.

Joyce's influence extends far beyond his native Ireland, shaping the course of modern fiction with his innovative narrative techniques and deep psychological insight. His writing rewards attentive readers with wit, humanity and a remarkable sense of place, ensuring his continued presence at the heart of literary study and enjoyment.

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  • Ulysses

    Vintage Publishing Ulysses

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisCelebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.The survivor of countless controversies, censorships and even claims of blasphemy, this centenary edition of Ulysses comes packaged in a boldly designed new package, befitting of its status as one of the most notorious and influential novels ever written.'The greatest novel of the century' Anthony BurgessUlysses has had a profound influence on modern fiction... Unforgettable' Guardian'A work of high genius' IndependentTrade ReviewUlysses changed the stakes of the novel for ever, letting us see how extraordinary the everyday can be by plugging us straight into the minds of its characters, and using language in an electrifying way that only poets had dared to up till then * New Statesman *The greatest novel of the century -- Anthony Burgess * Observer *The Odyssey, the Divine Comedy and Hamlet whisper their way through its pages: and Ulysses is their equal at every turn -- Simon Barnes * The Times *Ulysses, with its comic-epic tapestry, took fiction deeper than ever into the raucous carnival of everyday life * Independent *Dirty, blasphemous and unreadable, or one of the greatest novels of the 20th century? No matter what your opinion of it, Ulysses has had a profound influence on modern fiction... Unforgettable * Guardian *

    7 in stock

    £11.69

  • Dubliners

    Flame Tree Publishing Dubliners

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. The fifteen short stories collected in Dubliners are the best by renowned Modernist writer James Joyce. They were written between 1904 and 1907 and published much later in 1914. The stories explore themes of different life stages and provide a vivid depiction of gritty, day-to-day life in Dublin. The first story, ‘The Sisters’, sets the tone for the collection, exploring childhood. ‘The Dead’, which is the final story in the collection, takes place around the events of a Christmas party, culminating in a profound epiphany. It is widely considered by critics and readers alike to be a work of outstanding literary skill.

    15 in stock

    £8.54

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Arcturus Publishing Ltd A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £6.99

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Flame Tree Publishing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. James Joyce’s first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is a captivating evocation of the emotional, intellectual and creative coming of age of the young Stephen Dedalus, essentially Joyce’s alter ego. The originality and inventiveness of its modernist style prefigures Joyce’s yet more experimental masterpiece Ulysses and offers a profound, poetic insight into Joyce himself as well as a personal journey of awakening and rebellion.

    15 in stock

    £8.54

  • James Joyce: Poems

    Everyman James Joyce: Poems

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisJames Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also an accomplished poet. Chamber Music, his debut collection, fused the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of ironic exuberance. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, explores intimate themes of adultery, jealousy, and betrayal that would reappear transformed in the later Ulysses. Joyce's occasional verse includes the well-known "Ecce Puer," written for his newborn grandson, and his satirical poems "The Holy Office" and "Gas from a Burner." These poems are brought together here with Joyce's play, Exiles--about an unconventional couple involved in a love triangle--in a beautiful, accessible hardcover edition for the general reader.

    3 in stock

    £9.99

  • The Lilliput Press Ltd Dubliners

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £13.30

  • Chamber Music and Other Poems: Annotated Edition

    Alma Books Ltd Chamber Music and Other Poems: Annotated Edition

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisUniversally known for his groundbreaking prose – especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century – James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production. This volume, which includes Joyce’s first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist’s artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.Trade ReviewHis writing is not about something; it is that something itself. -- Samuel Beckett

    1 in stock

    £7.99

  • Dubliners: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics

    Alma Books Ltd Dubliners: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisJames Joyce’s first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the author’s development as a writer, and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form. Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth-century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con-men, from a young woman’s refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a man’s moment of clarity during an annual dance party, these stories offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era which has all but disappeared.Trade ReviewHis writing is not about something; it is that something itself. -- Samuel BeckettIts deep power abides in the inextricability of Joyce’s masterly control of language and the breadth of his vision. -- Eimear McBride

    3 in stock

    £6.99

  • The Best of James Joyce

    Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Best of James Joyce

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    £21.10

  • Exiles

    Nick Hern Books Exiles

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisJames Joyce's startlingly modern portrait of a marriage. Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard and Bertha have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together? Exiles is based in part on Joyce's own relationship with Nora Barnacle. His only play, it was written in 1914 during his own self-imposed exile from Ireland, between A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.Trade Review'A neglected landmark of modern theatre that explores the byzantine complexities of marriage with the honesty of genius' * Guardian *'Never for a second does it lose its grip' * Independent *'Astonishing... a play that asks sharp, searching questions about the difficulty of emotional honesty and, above all, the sheer complexity of our sexual feelings' * The Times *

    5 in stock

    £9.49

  • A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

    Everyman A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'.Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in what is considered one of his greatest works.

    2 in stock

    £14.24

  • Dubliners

    Everyman Dubliners

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisHis stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience. The stories all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. They offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era long since disappeared.

    2 in stock

    £13.49

  • Ulysses

    Everyman Ulysses

    2 in stock

    James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience

    2 in stock

    £18.00

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Greenwich Exchange Ltd A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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    £9.99

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

    Chiltern Publishing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, golden edges, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.

    15 in stock

    £18.00

  • A Shorter Finnegans Wake

    Galileo Publishers A Shorter Finnegans Wake

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £10.44

  • New Vessel Press A Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish

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    £17.09

  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform DUBLINERS James Joyce

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £10.71

  • Brepols N.V. The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo

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    £52.72

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Dubliners. A Selection. Englischer Text mit

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £7.22

  • dtv Verlagsgesellschaft Dubliner

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    £12.35

  • Carl Hanser Verlag Die Katzen von Kopenhagen

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £14.16

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG UlyssesGerman Text Das letzte Kapitel des Ulysses

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £14.40

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Dubliner Band 1 Dubliner

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £9.50

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Finnegans Wake Gesammelte Annherungen

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £14.40

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Dubliner

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Ulysses. Kommentierte Ausgabe

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £52.20

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Finns Hotel

    Out of stock

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    Out of stock

    £16.16

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Ulysses

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £18.00

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Ulysses Jubiläumsausgabe Dunkelblau

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £16.20

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Ulysses Jubiläumsausgabe Rot

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £16.20

  • Manesse Verlag Ein Portrt des Knstlers als junger Mann Roman

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £21.21

  • Manesse Verlag Dubliner

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £20.40

  • Anaconda Verlag Ulysses Roman

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £12.30

  • Anaconda Verlag Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £8.14

  • Ulises

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £37.04

  • labutxaca Dublinesos

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisA Dublinesos, Jame Joyce reuneix quinze relats que recreen episodis de la seva ciutat. Les diverses històries s'encreuen i els personatges van i vénen, desapareixen i reapareixen, de manera que s'ha vist en aquest llibre una novella amb un únic personatge: Dublin.

    3 in stock

    £16.81

  • Batiscafo Ulises Ilustrado

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    £49.77

  • Edicions 62 Retrat de lartista adolescent

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £11.94

  • Dublineses / Dubliners

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Dublineses / Dubliners

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    £15.39

  • Visor libros, S.L. Poesía completa

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £14.00

  • Igela Argitaletxea Ulises

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    £27.41

  • Plutón Ediciones Dubliners

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £11.92

  • Ediciones Brontes, S.L. Ulises

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisFormato: pdf Adobe DRMExtraordinaria y originalísima novela del irlandés James Joyce (1882 - 1941) publicada en 1922 en inglés, en París. Siguiendo la huella de La Odisea homérica, el autor sitúa sus aventuras en la ciudad de Dublín y en un solo día. La obra rompe audazmente con la unidad de estilo y participa de la leyenda, la historia, el reportaje, la burla, el drama, la sinfonía y la filosofía, en una gran carga simbólica. Joyce utiliza el inglés de varias épocas, así como locuciones en los más variados idiomas y dialectos. En el campo de la técnica literaria, puede decirse que lo intentó todo. Su éxito fue trascendental para la novelística posterior, comparable en pintura a Goya o Picasso.

    3 in stock

    £24.16

  • labutxaca Ulisses

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEncuadernación: RústicaColección: LBUlisses narra la història d'un dia el 16 de juny de 1904 en la vida de tres personatges: Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom i Molly Bloom en el seu vagareig per Dublín. Acció, pensament, farsa, mostrari d'estils...una de les obres més revolucionaries en la història de la literatura.

    1 in stock

    £14.90

  • The Originals : A Portrait of The Artist as a

    OM Books International The Originals : A Portrait of The Artist as a

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce portrays Stephen Dedalus' journey of self-discovery and rebellion against societal and religious constraints, culminating in his exile from Ireland. Published in 1916, the novel showcases Joyce's modernist style and themes of individuality and cultural identity.

    1 in stock

    £9.93

  • Finnegans Wake

    Double 9 Booksllp Finnegans Wake

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £23.24

  • Chamber Music

    Double 9 Books Chamber Music

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisJames Joyce's book of poems titled Chamber Music was released by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. There were originally thirty-four love poems in the anthology, but two more were added before it was published (All day I hear the noise of waters and I hear an army charging upon the land). Although it is widely believed that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean embellishment that gives an earthiness to a title that was initially proposed by his brother Stanislaus and that Joyce (by the time of publication) had come to dislike: The reason I dislike Chamber Music as a title is that it is too complacent, he admitted to Arthur Symons in 1906. I would prefer a title that criticized the work while avoiding outright trashing it. Chamber Music's poetry isn't at all racy or evocative of the sound of tinkling urine, in fact. The poems were well-received by critics despite poor sales (less than half of the original print run of 500 had been sold in the first year).

    1 in stock

    £8.86

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