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  • Published: 15 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241406014
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.00
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Exiles




James Joyce's only surviving play in a new edition with an introduction and annotations by Andrew Gibson.

After ten long years spent away from Dublin, Richard, Bertha and their young illegitimate son Archie are back home. Despite expectations of comfort and domesticity, the couple's return to the place where they first met triggers an existential questioning, an anxiousness which is exacerbated by meetings with old friends and lovers.

James Joyce's only surviving play, Exiles builds upon one of his most famous short stories, 'The Dead', to provide a profound exploration of jealousy, doubt and the complexity of human desire.

  • Published: 15 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241406014
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

James Joyce

James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin in 1882. At twenty years old, Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include Chamber Music, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach, and Finnegans Wake. Ulysses required seven years to complete and Finnegans Wake took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.

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Praise for Exiles

A neglected landmark of modern theatre that explores the byzantine complexities of marriage with the honesty of genius

Guardian