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 competitors who claimed that they possessed Shi Yukun's story as "shameless crooks". Although "The Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" completed the tale, it could not stop enthusiasts and profiteers from writing and publishing more sequels, such as "Another Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (再續小五義), "The Third Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (三續小五義) and many others, with Lu Xun in 1924 counting 24 sequels. An explosion of copycat novels also flooded the market in the last years of the 19th century, assuming similar titles such as In a 1909 essay, writer Shi An (石菴) lamented the cheapness of