James Joyce James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for "Ulysses" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's "Odyssey" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection "Dubliners" (1914), and the novels "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939).
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants biggest book collectors in 19th-century Beijing and clearly an elite member of the society. Based on "Longtu Erlu", the 120-chapter "The Tale of Loyal Heroes and Righteous Gallants" was printed by a movable type at the Juzhen tang (聚珍堂) in 1879, which caused a sensation in Beijing. Unprecedentedly for a print Chinese novel, the oral storyteller's name Shi Yukun appeared on the title page. The book also included 3 prefaces, written respectively by: In a 1883 reprint by Wenya zhai (文雅齋), the novel was renamed to "The Three Heroes and Five Gallants", with the "three heroes" being actually four people,