Dubliners
By: by James Joyce ; with an introduction by Edna O'Brien
Contributors: O'Brien, Edna
Edition: First Signet Classic Printing (14)
Series: A Signet classic -- CE2543
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1991-04
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780451525437
Copyright date: 1991
Description: Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyces' DUBLINERS is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear, dirty Dublin" at the turn of the century, and moral history of a nation and a people whose "golden age" has passed. 

From the opening story, "The Sisters," in which a boy first encounters death, to the powerful and evocative "The Dead," which brings the collection to its haunting climax, DUBLINERS startles the reader into realizing universal human truths in moments Joyce called epiphanies. And his richly drawn characters - at once intensely Irish and utterly universal - haunt us long after the first reading. In writing that never fails to provoke and mesmerize, Joyce takes us deep into the heart of the city of his birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners' speech in remarkably realistic portrayals of their inner lives.

This magnificent collection of fifteen stories reveals Joyce at his most accessible and perhaps most profound.

(back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240).