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James Joyce

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Born in Rathgar · Died 1941 in Zurich

writer, novelist, poet, author, journalist · Ireland, United Kingdom

Notable works: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Pomes Penyeach

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Ulysses

From Project Gutenberg e-text #4300 (public domain in the USA).

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

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—History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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The Dubliners

From Project Gutenberg e-text #2814 (public domain in the USA).

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

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