James Joyce alphabetical notebook, circa 1904.

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James Joyce alphabetical notebook, circa 1904.

A series of notes kept by James Joyce on the following subjects: Byrne (John Francis), Cosgrave (Vincent), Clancy (George Stephen), Casey (Joseph), Calvacanti [sic] (Guido), Dedalus (Stephen), Devin, Esthetic, England, Gogarty (Oliver Saint John), Gordon (Michael), Giorgino, Henry (Father William), Healy (Michael), Ireland, Jesus, Ibsen (Henrik), Jesuits, Lust, Mother, McCluskey, Nora Pappie, Prezioso (Roberto), Poppie, Roucati (Venanzio), Rogers, (Marcellus), Skeffington (Francis Joseph Christopher), Sordina (Conte Francesco), Shelley (Percy Bysshe), Uncle William, and Walshe (Louis). These autograph notes are contained in a thick notebook, bound in half cloth over red-and-black mottled boards, with marbled edges. There are 300 ruled leaves in the book. The leaves are divided by 25 red tabs with white letters and have been cut so as to display the tabs, which are arranged in alphabetical order from top to bottom. Much of the material in this book was used verbatim by James Joyce in his published works, especially Ulysses and Portrait.

1 v. (unpaged) ; 20 cm.

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Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...