James Joyce is difficult. My favorite of his work is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, mostly because it's the one that I come away fulfilled from. He's one of the least-prolific authors who gets mentioned in these discussions, but he rewrote writing to a degree. The academics are obsessed. I probably wouldn't recommend anything other than Dubliners and maybe Portrait to friends.
Oscar Wilde is in the conversation for greatest all-around writer. (Admittedly, that discussion ends with William Shakespeare every time.)
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