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* ''[[Dubliners]]'' (1914): a collection of short stories about [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|some Dubliners]].
* ''[[A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man]]'' (1916): A mostly autobiographical, coming-of-age story. It occasionally veers into ''Ulysses''-like stream of consciousness, but to students who read (or try to read) ''Ulysses'' first, it's a surprisingly catchy page-turner, maybe even a "conventional" novel. (That rumble you hear is Joyce spinning in his grave.)
* ''[[Ulysses]]'' (1922): [[Love It or Hate It]], ''Ulysses'' is a defining novel of the 20th century. The plot? Leopold Bloom and his wife and some friends have experiences on 16 June 1904, known now as "Bloomsday". Simple, right? Ha. It's [[
* ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' (1939): Whereas ''Ulysses'' broke some rules and bent the rest, ''Finnegans Wake'' absolutely obliterated every single one. We would try to provide a useful description, but we'll let Mr. Joyce himself try to make the case:
{{quote| And that was how the skirtmisshes began. But the dour handworded her grace in dootch nossow: ''Shut''! So her grace o'malice kidsnapped up the jiminy Tristopher and into the shandy westerness she rain, rain, rain.}}
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