 | Ulysses: The 1922 text (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £5.52 / Used from: £4.61 Mad, funny, intelligent, humane. A story about a man who is consistently underrated by those around him. An epic voyage through the English language
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £2.50 The early masterpiece. A cunning tale about a young Irishman growing up in Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century. Extraordinary, moving and ultimately inspiring
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 | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Buy used from: £5.74 Like nothing else ever written. Get a Faber edition if you can, others are corrupt. Weird, comic and strangely haunting, the most radical novel ever written
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 | Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £2.00 Plain Joyce - but still surprisingly subtle and mischievous. A collection of stories about fractured lives in a beaten city
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 | James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £10.61 By far, the best biography available. Makes this much-feared author into an endearing and very fallible human being
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 | Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £8.42 Interesting non-fiction, mostly newspaper articles. Not essential though
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 | Stephen Hero by James Joyce
Buy used from: £5.37 The fragmentary first draft of "A Portrait of the Artist". Fascinating because it's so unlike the final version - evidence of what he might have been like if he hadn't copped onto himself
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 | Selected Letters by James Joyce
Buy new: £24.45 / Used from: £20.00 Confident, despairing, (politely) begging, haughty, sometimes pornographic
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 | Poems and Shorter Writings by James Joyce
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £5.94 Perhaps the least essential stuff of all - but the comic poems are a good laugh, and "Giacomo Joyce" is a sardonic and elliptical bit of autobiography
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 | Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake by Philip Kitcher
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £33.34 The new reader of "Finnegans Wake" can feel a bit lost. This book is immensely helpful, and particularly good on what the book is about as opposed to how it's written
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 | James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses" (Oxford paperbacks) by Frank Budgen
Buy used from: £39.60 Very good about what Joyce was like to be around. Lots of interesting anecdotes
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 | Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" by Roland McHugh
Buy new: £19.33 / Used from: £18.80 If you've tasted the "Wake" and liked it, you're going to need this
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