Exiles: A Play in Three Acts, including Hitherto Unpublished Notes by the Author, Discovered after his Death, and an Introduction by Padraic Colum

JOYCE, James

ISBN 10: 0670000841 / ISBN 13: 9780670000845

Published by Viking Press, New York, 1951

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First edition. Octavo. Near fine in price-clipped near very good dustwrapper with small chips, tears, and modest age-toning. One of 1900 copies for sale of the first edition. Gift inscription in the book: "To Mother with love, Jones." The recipient was the actress Ruth Gordon.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exiles: A Play in Three Acts, including Hitherto Unpublished Notes by the Author, Discovered after his Death, and an Introduction by Padraic Colum
• Publisher: Viking Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1951
• ISBN 10: 0670000841
• ISBN 13: 9780670000845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama

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Synopsis

Book by Joyce, James

About the Author

James Joyce, the twentieth century's most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father's wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as "Bloomsday" in his novel "Ulysses. "Nara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include "Chamber music "(1907), "Dubliners "(1914), "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "(1916), "Exiles "(1918), "Ulysses "(1922), "Poems Penyeach "(1927), "Finnegans Wake "(1939), and an early draft of "A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero "(1944). "Ulysses "required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, "Finnegans Wake, "took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.