Dubliners
By: James Joyce.
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780486268705
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction
Description: Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 — victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the life of Dublin's poorer classes, their unconventional themes, coarse language, and mention of actual people and places made publishers of the day reluctant to undertake sponsorship.

Today, however, the stories are admired for their intense and masterly dissection of "dear dirty Dublin," and for the economy and grace with which Joyce invested this youthful fiction. From "The Sisters," the first story, illuminating a young boy's initial encounter with death, through the final piece, "The Dead," considered a masterpiece of the form, these tales represent, as Joyce himself explained, a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that would give the Irish "one good look at themselves." But in the end the stories are not just about the Irish; they represent moments of revelation common to all people.

Now readers can enjoy all 15 stories in this inexpensive collection, which also functions as an excellent, accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential writers. Dubliners is reprinted here, complete and unabridged, from a standard edition.
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Notes: "Unabridged text of Dubliners (first publication: Grant Richards, London, 1914)"--T.p. verso.
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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