Dubliners
Edition: Bantam Classic / April 1990 (16)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1996?
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780553213805
Copyright date: 1990
Description: In Dubliners, Joyce paints vivid portraits of the denizens of the city of his birth, from the young boy encountering death in the fist story, “The Sisters,” to the middle-aged Gabriel of the haunting final story, “The Dead.” The collection is both unflinchingly realistic portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” and, as Joyce himself explained, a chapter of the moral history of his country from which his countrymen could get “one good look at themselves.” It is a remarkable look, by turns bawdy and witty, but always darkened by a paralysis of spirit and emotions. Each of these fifteen stories startles the reader into realising universal truths in moments Joyce called epiphanies. DUBLINERS is one of the greatest short story collections in the English language and a crucial preface to the later works of this century's most influential novelist.
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Table of contents: title: The sisters.; title: An encounter.; title: Araby.; title: Eveline.; title: After the race.; title: Two gallants.; title: The boarding house.; title: A little cloud.; title: Counterparts.; title: Clay.; title: A painful case.; title: Ivy day in the committee room.; title: A mother.; title: Grace.; title: The dead.