Exiles (Literary Classics)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland.  He was the eldest of ten children of John Stanislaus Joyce, a failed businessman, and Mary Jane Miller, an accomplished pianist.  Educated in Jesuit-run schools, Joyce matriculated with second-degree honors in Latin, earning a B.A. from University College, Dublin, in 1902.  After trying various occupations, including teaching, he left Ireland in 1904 and lived in Italy, Switzerland, and France.Joyce published volumes of verse: Chamber Music (1907), Pomes Penyeach (1927), and Collected Poems (1936); a collection of stories, Dubliners (1914); and the novels Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).  Strongly influenced by the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, Joyce wrote the play Exiles (1918).Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 13, 1941.