Worlds Greatest SciFi Stories, James Joyce
Worlds Greatest SciFi Stories, James Joyce
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The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe,
Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin,
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving,
Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone,
Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte,
The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley,
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol,
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,
The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe,
An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Frog by Edgar Allan Poe,
The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare,
To Be Read At Dusk. by Charles Dickens,
The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev,
Nobody's Story by Charles Dickens,
The Fiddler by Herman Melville,
The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville,
Selecting The Faculty by Robert Carlton,
The Cold Embrace by Mary E. Braddon,
Journalism In Tennessee by Mark Twain,
The Luck Of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte,
A Jersey Centenarian by Bret Harte,
The Notorious Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County by Mark Twain,
The Peterkins Decide To Learn The Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale,
The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Parson's Horse Race by Harriet Beecher Stowe,
How I killed a bear by Charles Dudley Warner,
My Uncle Jules by Guy de Maupassant,
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant,
A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett,
The Goophered Grapevine,
The Sphinx Without A Secret by Oscar Wilde,
The Invaders by Leo Tolstoy,
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde,
A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,
Squire Petrick's Lady by Thomas Hardy,
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce,
A Ghost Story by Jerome K. Jerome,
Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin,
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce,
Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce,
The Idiot's Journalism Scheme,
Active Colorado Real Estate,
The Remarkable Case Of Davidson's Eyes by H.G. Wells,
The Veteran by Stepehn Crane,
Rollo Learning To Read by Robert J. Burdette,
A Pair Of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin,
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane,
The Tables Of The Law by W.B. Yeats,
The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane,
Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov,
The Storm by Kate Chopin,
The Darling by Anton Chekhov,
Wee Willie Winkie by Rudyard Kipling,
The White Silence by Jack London,
How Old Timofei Died With A Song by Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Path To The Cemetery by Thomas Mann,
With Other Eyes by Luigi Pirandello,
The Leopard Man's Story by Jack London,
A Piece Of String by Guy de Maupassant,
Home Sickness by George Moore,
The Open Window by H.H. Munro (Saki),
A Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather,
The Set Of Poe by George Ade,
The Furnished Room by O. Henry,
The Gift Of The Magi by O. Henry,
The Last Leaf by O. Henry,
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster,
The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather,
The Cottagette by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Germans At Meat by Katherine Mansfield,
Tobermory by Saki,
How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped by Katherine Mansfield,
Smoke by Djuna Barnes,
The Blind Man by James Stephens,
If I Were A Man by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Ivy Day In The Committee Room by James Joyce,
Eveline by James Joyce,
The Damned by Algernon Blackwood,
The Damned by Algernon Blackwood. Part 2.,
The Prussian Officer by D.H. Lawrence,
The Signal by Vsevolod M. Garshin,
The White Mother by Theodor Sologub,
The Ploughing Of Leaca-Na-Naomh by Daniel Corkery,
The Judgment by Franz Kafka,
The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin,
Mrs. Frola And Mr. Ponza, Her Son-In-Law by Luigi Pirandello,
The Blind Ones by Isaak Babel,
Pink Flannel by Ford Maddox Ford,
A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka,
The Egg by Sherwood Anderson,
The Mark On The Wall by Virginia Woolf,
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield,
The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle,
A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka,
A Raid Night by H.M. Tomlinson,
My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway,
The Broken Boot by John Galsworthy,
The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft.

About James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941) was born in Dublin, Ireland. From the age of six, Joyce was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at Belvedere College in Dublin. Later he thanked the Jesuits for teaching him to think straight, although he rejected their religious instructions. In 1898 he entered the University College, Dublin, where he found his early inspirations from the works of Henrik Ibsen, St. Thomas Aquinas, and W. B. Yeats. Joyce's first publication, an essay on Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken, appeared in Fortnightly Review in 1900. At this time he began writing lyric poems.

After graduation, Joyce spent a year in France, returning when a telegram arrived saying his mother was dying. Not long after her death, Joyce left Dublin with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid whom he later married, and traveled around Europe, eventually settling in Trieste, Italy. There Joyce wrote most of Dubliners, all of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and large sections of Ulysses. In 1907, Joyce published a collection of poems entitled Chamber Music. In 1909, Joyce opened a cinema in Dublin, but this affair failed and he was soon back in Trieste, broke and working as a teacher, tweed salesman, journalist, and lecturer.

In 1916, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, an autobiographical novel, was published. At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved with his family to Zurich, where he started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses, which was first published in France because of censorship troubles in Great Britain and the United States. In 1923, Joyce moved to Paris and started his second major work, Finnegans Wake, which occupied his time for the next sixteen years-the final version of the book was completed in late 1938.

After the fall of France in World War II, Joyce returned to Zurich, where he died on January 13, 1941. Finnegans Wake was the last and most revolutionary work of the author.


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