The Dubliners, 1914 - AbeBooks The Dubliners, 1914 Results (1 - 30) of 269 1 James Joyce, Robert Scholes, A. Walton Litz Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, United States (1990) ISBN 10: 0553213806 ISBN 13: 9780553213805 New Paperback Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, United States, 1990. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 174 x 104 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound.

The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce s life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from stories of my childhood through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780553213805 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Dover Publications Inc., United States, 1992. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 208 x 130 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed.

The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce s life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from stories of my childhood through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780486268705 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, United States, 1990. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 174 x 104 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book.

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce s life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from stories of my childhood through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780553213805 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Dover Publications Inc., United States, 1992. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition.

208 x 130 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce s life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from stories of my childhood through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.

Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780486268705 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Signet ClassicS, 1991. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Introduction by Edna O'Brien Bright, clean pictorial wraps, slight wear to edges, soundly bound, internals clean and unmarked, toned. The collection of fifteen short stories that make up Dubliners was described by Joyce himself as a series of chapters in the moral history of his community. He focuses on the lives of Dublin's poorer classes, with unconventional themes, coarse language, with mention of actual people and places of the day. But they also represent themes common to all people. First published in 1914. The Signet Classic Edition reprints the 1968 revised edition of the 1958 Viking Compass edition of "Dubliners" prepared by Robert Scholes and published by Penguin Books, which adhere to Joyce's textual instructions for his book. xi + 240 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches.

1991, Signet Classics, USA. Bookseller Inventory # 022561 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Dover Publications, 1991. Paperback. Book Condition: As New. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade Paperback As New. Bright, clean pictorial wraps, soundly bound, internals as new. The collection of short stories that make up Dubliners was described by Joyce himself as a series of chapters in the moral history of his community. He focuses on the lives of Dublin's poorer classes, with unconventional themes, coarse language, with mention of actual people and places of the day. But they also represent themes common to all people. This is an unabridged Dover edition, a republication of the standard text of the work first published in 1914. 152 pages. 8.25 x 5.2 inches. Dover Publications, Mineola, NY 1991. Bookseller Inventory # 022229 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Peacock/ Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2009. Softcover.

Book Condition: New. First edition. Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant Richards in late 1905. After initial enthusiasm for the book, Richards became uncomfortable about sexual explicitness and possible legal implications which could result from this. In 1909 Joyce stopped persuading Grant Richards for publication of the book and sent it to the Irish publisher, Maunsel & Company. There the book was printed, but the stock was destroyed before its release fearing libel action. Ultimately the book was printed and released by Grant Richards in 1914. In Dubliners, Joyce portrays the denizens of the city of his birth, from the young boy facing death in the first story, "The Sisters", to the middle-aged Gabriel of the haunting final story, "The Dead". He rebels against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the centre of this excellent collection of stories. Printed Pages: 208. Bookseller Inventory # 6198 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2008. Paperback.

Book Condition: New. Reissued.. 194 x 128 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne James Joyce s disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would retard the course of civilisation in Ireland . Joyce s aim was to tell the truth - to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.

Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Bookseller Inventory # AOP9780199536436 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Peacock/ Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2009. Softcover. Book Condition: New. First edition. Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant Richards in late 1905. After initial enthusiasm for the book, Richards became uncomfortable about sexual explicitness and possible legal implications which could result from this. In 1909 Joyce stopped persuading Grant Richards for publication of the book and sent it to the Irish publisher, Maunsel & Company. There the book was printed, but the stock was destroyed before its release fearing libel action. Ultimately the book was printed and released by Grant Richards in 1914.

In Dubliners, Joyce portrays the denizens of the city of his birth, from the young boy facing death in the first story, "The Sisters", to the middle-aged Gabriel of the haunting final story, "The Dead". He rebels against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the centre of this excellent collection of stories. Printed Pages: 208. Bookseller Inventory # 6198 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Wisehouse Classics, United States, 2016. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.DUBLINERS is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

They centre on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. (more on: Bookseller Inventory # AAV9789176372005 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, 2015. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. James Joyce is one of Ireland s most famous writers, a novelist and poet who is considered the pioneer of modern writing, including avant-garde styles of the early 20th century.

His most famous work, Ulysses, embodied the technique referred to as stream of consciousness, influencing all sorts of writers who came after him, but he also wrote other famous works like the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and novels like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Bookseller Inventory # APC9781522908807 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2008. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reissued.. 194 x 128 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne James Joyce s disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would retard the course of civilisation in Ireland .

Joyce s aim was to tell the truth - to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Bookseller Inventory # AOP9780199536436 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Pan MacMillan, United Kingdom, 2016. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New Edition. 158 x 101 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book.

First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes within the stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. Joyce was twenty-five years old when he wrote this collection of short stories, among which The Dead is probably the most famous. Considered at the time as a literary experiment, Dubliners contains moments of joy, fear, grief, love and loss, which combine to form one of the most complete depictions of a city ever written, and the stories remain as refreshingly original and surprising in this century as they did in the last. With an afterword by Peter Harness. Designed to appeal to the booklover, Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautifully bound hardback gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure. Bookseller Inventory # AA79781509826629 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, 2015. Paperback.

Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

Bookseller Inventory # APC9781522871590 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Random House USA Inc, India, 1993. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 214 x 149 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce s life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from stories of my childhood through tales of public life.

Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780679739906 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Wisehouse Classics, United States, 2016. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. DUBLINERS is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses.

The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. (more on: Bookseller Inventory # AAV9789176372005 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, 2016. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 ï¿½ 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized.

Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin---about half a mile from his mother s birthplace in Terenure---into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father s alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce s fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city.

Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781537006086 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Cricket House Books, LLC, United States, 2010. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 216 x 140 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories center on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people.

This is in line with Joyce s division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity. Source: /wiki/Dubliners. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781935814009 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace, United States, 2014. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 226 x 150 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses.

The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781497441040 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Peacock/ Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. First edition. Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant Richards in late 1905. After initial enthusiasm for the book, Richards became uncomfortable about sexual explicitness and possible legal implications which could result from this. In 1909 Joyce stopped persuading Grant Richards for publication of the book and sent it to the Irish publisher, Maunsel & Company. There the book was printed, but the stock was destroyed before its release fearing libel action. Ultimately the book was printed and released by Grant Richards in 1914.

In Dubliners, Joyce portrays the denizens of the city of his birth, from the young boy facing death in the first story, "The Sisters", to the middle-aged Gabriel of the haunting final story, "The Dead". He rebels against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the centre of this excellent collection of stories. Printed Pages: 208. Bookseller Inventory # 6200 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace, United States, 2015. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Editora Americana (illustrator). 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

They centre on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781511872553 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, 2015. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 279 x 216 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781522809524 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Random House USA Inc, India, 1993. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 214 x 149 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book. Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed.

The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce s life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from stories of my childhood through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780679739906 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Cricket House Books, LLC, United States, 2010. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 216 x 140 mm. Language: English .

Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories center on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity. Source: /wiki/Dubliners. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781935814009 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, 2015. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.

They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce s idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce s novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce s tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. Bookseller Inventory # APC9781522871590 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, 2016. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English .

Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 ï¿½ 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin---about half a mile from his mother s birthplace in Terenure---into a middle-class family on the way down.

A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father s alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce s fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

Bookseller Inventory # APC9781537006086 'Dubliners' Is Published | World History Project Jun 15 1914 'Dubliners' Is Published Troubled by his conscience (a rare trait for any publisher) he now agreed, again, to publish Dubliners, the only condition being Joyce had to buy 120 copies himself and would receive no royalties until 500 copies had been sold. So on June 15th, 1914, almost ten years to the day since his first date with Mora, Dubliners appeared in a first run of 1,250 copies. And tehre was, in the end, no uproar over any of the passages that had kept the book from publication for so long. Source: Tim Miller; 'And A Very Good Time It Was: A Short Life of James Joyce', Six Galley Press Added by: Colin Harris Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.

The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. Source: Wikipedia Added by: Colin Harris More information Dubliners. by James JOYCE - First Edition - 1914 - from Peter Harrington and Biblio.com The Sea John Banville John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter born in 1945. He sometimes writes under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.

His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. Banville is known for the dark humor of his arch narrators and his cold, inventive prose style. In this novel, Banville's main character is Max Morden, an art historian, who has recently suffered the demise of his beloved wife Anna. It is a journey back down the earliest roadways and alleys of Max's memory. Intertwined within this story are Max’s memories of his wife, Anna and of their life together; his relationship with his grown daughter, Claire, who is desperate to pull him from his grief; and with the other boarders at the house where he is staying, where the past beats inside him “like a second heart.” John Banville, famous for his poetic language, now gives us a uniquely reflective novel about loss, love and the transfiguring power of memory. ... Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart is a 1958 English-language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world.

It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim. The title of the novel comes from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming". In 2009, Newsweek ranked Things Fall Apart #14 on its list Top 100 Books: The Meta-List. The novel concerns the life of Okonkwo, a leader and local wrestling champion throughout the nine fictional villages of the Igbo ethnic group of Umuofia in Nigeria, his three wives, his children (mainly concerning his oldest son Nwoye and his favorite daughter Ezinma), and the influences of British colonialism and Christian missionaries on his traditional Igbo (archaically spelled "Ibo") community during an unspecified time in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Things Fall Apart was followed by a sequel, No Longer at Ease, originally written as the second part of a larger work together with Things Fall Apart, and Arrow of God, on a similar subject.

Achebe states that his two later novels, A Man of the People and Anthills of the Savannah, while not featuring Okonkwo's descendants and set in completely fictional African countries, are spiritual successors to the previous novels in chronicling African history.... Finnegans Wake James Joyce Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, and is best known for it's experimental style that makes the book difficult to read. Published in 1939, this entire book is written in a language made up of puns and portmanteau words, and it attempts to recreate the surreal experience of waking dreams. The opening line of the book is a sentence fragment, which continues from the book's unfinished closing line, making the work a never-ending cycle. ... Araby (James Joyce 1914) | James Joyce Araby (James Joyce 1914) Araby(James Joyce 1914) “Araby” is one of fifteen short stories that together make up James Joyce’s collection, Dubliners. Although Joyce wrotethe stories between 1904 and 1906, they were not published until 1914.

Dubliners paints a portrait of life in Dublin, Ireland, at the turn of the twentieth century. Its stories are arranged in an order reflecting the development of a child into agrown man. The first three stories are told from the point of view of a young boy, the next three from the point of view of anadolescent, and so on. “Araby” is the last story of the first set, and is told from the perspective of a boy just on the verge of adolescence. The story takes its title from a real festival which came to Dublin in 1894 when Joyce was twelve years old. Joyce is one of the most famous writers of the Modernist period of literature, which runs roughly from 1900 to the end of World War II. Modernist works often include characters who are spiritually lost and themes that reflect a cynicismtoward institutions the writer had been taught to respect, such as government and religion. Much of the literature of this period is experimental; Joyce’s writing reflects this in the use of dashes instead of quotation marks to indicate that acharacter is speaking. Joyce had a very difficult time getting Dubliners published.

It took him over ten years to find a publisher who waswilling to risk publishing the stories because of their unconventional style and themes. Once he found a publisher, he fought very hard with the editors to keep the stories the way he had written them. Years later, these stories are heralded not only for their portrayal of life in Dublin at the turn of the century, but also as the beginning of the career of one of the most brilliant English-language writers of the twentieth century. Author Biography James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, the oldest often children born to John and Mary Joyce. Joyce’s father, eventhough he was a good-natured man, was a drinker who wasted the family’s resources. The Joyce family moved constantly,and Joyce became familiar with the sight of a pawnbroker’s redemption slips and eviction notices. In spite of his family’s lack of money, Joyce was sent to Clongowes Wood College — a Jesuit Catholic boarding schoolwhen he was six years old. Upon arrival, Joyce was asked his age, to which he replied, “Half-past six,” which became hisnickname for the rest of that year.

Later, he went to another Jesuit school, Belvedere College, where he began to show hisbrilliance as a writer, winning several national competitions. Joyce spent the money he received from these competitionsvery quickly, celebrating with his large family at dinners in restaurants and redeeming some of his mother’s possessions from the pawnbroker. Joyce was always painfully aware that he, being the oldest son, was given a good education and other privileges that his younger brothers and sisters could not receive.When Joyce went to University College in Dublin, he began to rebel against his Catholic upbringing. Althoughsuccessful in academic life, he found the unsophisticated narrowness of Irish politics and the arts stifling. After graduation,he met Nora Barnacle from Galway, Ireland, who would become his lifelong companion. Joyce was opposed to theinstitution of marriage, and he knew that he and Nora could not live together in Dublin without being married.

So, after hismother’s death in 1904, Joyce and Nora left Ireland to live the rest of their lives in continental Europe: first in Pola, in the former Yugoslavia; then Trieste, Italy, where their children Giorgio and Lucia were born; then Zurich, Switzerland, duringthe First World War; and finally, Paris. It was only after he left Ireland that Joyce was able to begin writing about hisnative country, and the stories in Dubliners, including “Araby,” were written in his first years away, although they werenot published until 1914. During these years on the continent, Joyce supported his family by teaching English and holding a variety of other jobs,including managing an English theater troupe and working at a bank. He continued to write, but experienced onlyscattered commercial success. With the publication of his novel Ulysses in 1922, however, he reached a level of financialstability that enabled him to begin writing full-time. In the following years, his already poor eyesight got progressivelyworse, and he underwent several eye operations. Also during this period, Joyce’s daughter suffered a nervous breakdownand was hospitalized in a sanitarium in Zurich.

In 1931, after 27 years of living together, Joyce and Nora were finallymarried. They were afraid that after Joyce died, Nora would be left with no rights to his estate. Joyce died on January 13,1941, following surgery for an ulcer. He was 58 years old. Plot Summary “Araby” opens on North Richmond street in Dublin, where “an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end,detached from its neighbours in a square ground.” The narrator, who remains unnamed throughout the story, lives withhis aunt and uncle. He describes his block, then discusses the former tenant who lived in his house: a priest who recentlydied in the back room. This priest has a library that attracts the young narrator, and he is particularly interested in threetitles: a Sir Walter Scott romance, a religious tract, and a police agent’s memoirs.The narrator talks about being a part of the group of boys who play in the street. He then introduces Mangan’s sister, agirl who captivates his imagination even though he rarely, if ever, speaks with her.

He does stare at her from his windowand follow her on the street, however, often thinking of her “even in places the most hostile to romance.” While in themarketplace on Saturday nights, for example, he uses her image to guide him through the thronging crowd who yell their sales pitches and sing patriotic Irish ballads. He becomes misty-eyed just at the thought of her and retreats to the priest’sdark room in order to deprive himself of other senses and think only of her.Finally, Mangan’s sister speaks to him. She asks if he will be attending a church-sponsored fair that is coming soon to Dublin — a bazaar called Araby. He is tongue-tied and cannot answer, but when she tells him that she cannot go becauseof a retreat that week in her convent, he promises to go and bring her a gift from the bazaar. From then on he can onlythink of the time when he will be at the fair; he is haunted by “the syllables of the word Araby.” On the night he issupposed to attend the fair, his uncle is late returning home and he must wait to get money from him.

He gets very anxious,and his aunt tells him that he may have to miss the bazaar, but his uncle does come home, apologetic that he had forgotten. After asking the boy if he knows a poem entitled “The Arab’s Farewell to His Steed,” the uncle bids the boy farewell.The boy takes a coin from his uncle and catches a train to the fair. Araby is closing down as he arrives and he timidlywalks through the center of the bazaar. As he looks at the few stalls that are still open, he overhears a conversationbetween an English shop-girl and two young men. Their talk is nothing but idle gossip. The shop-girl pauses reluctantly toask the boy if he wishes to buy anything, but he declines. As he walks slowly out of the hall amid the darkening of the lights,he thinks that he is a “creature driven and derided by vanity” and his “eyes burned with anguish and anger.” Characters Mangan Mangan is the same age and in the same class at the Christian Brothers school as the narrator, and so he and thenarrator often play together after school. His older sister is the object of the narrator’s confused feelings.

Mangan’s Sister Mangan is one of the narrator’s chums who lives down the street. His older sister becomes the object of the narrator’sschoolboy crush. Mangan’s sister has no idea how the narrator feels about her, however, so when they discuss Araby, thebazaar coming to town, she is only being polite and friendly. She says she would like to go to the bazaar but cannot because she has to attend a school retreat that weekend. The narrator promises to buy her something at the bazaar if hegoes, but it is unlikely that she takes this promise seriously. While on the one hand the narrator describes her romantically,he also describes her in reverential terms which call to mind the Virgin Mary. This dual image description of Mangan’ ssister represents the religious and romantic confusion of the narrator. Mrs. Mercer Mrs. Mercer is the pawnbroker’s widow who waits at the house for the narrator’s uncle, perhaps to collect money that he owes her. Joyce includes her character to show that the uncle is unreliable in the payment of his debts. Narrator The narrator of this story is a young, sensitive boy who confuses a romantic crush and religious enthusiasm.

All of theconflict in this story happens inside his mind. It is unlikely that the object of his crush, Mangan’s sister, is aware of his feelings for her, nor is anybody else in this boy’s small world. Because the boy’ s thoughts only reveal a part of the story, acareful reader must put together clues that the author gives. For example, the narrator mentions that the former tenant of the house he shares with his aunt and uncle was a priest, a representative of the Catholic church, who left behind threebooks which became important to the narrator. One is a romantic adventure by Sir Walter Scott; one is a religious pamphlet written by a Protestant; and the third is the exciting memoirs of a French policeman and master of disguise.These three books are not what a person would expect a Catholic priest to have in his library. So if this priest hasnon-religious literature in his library, then how devout can an average churchgoer be expected to be? This turns out to bethe case for the narrator, who confuses religious idealism with romance.The boy confuses the religious and secular worlds when he describes himself at the market with his aunt.

He bears thechalice — the Communion cup — through a “throng of foes.” He also describes Mangan’s sister in terms often associated with the Virgin Mary. For the narrator, then, an ordinary grocery-shopping trip becomes a religious crusade, and a prettygirl down the street becomes a substitute for the Mother of God. The boy fuses together religious devotion for the Virgin Mary with his own romantic longing. Joyce is famous for creating characters who undergo an epiphany — a sudden moment of insight — and the narrator of “Araby” is one of his best examples. At the end of the story, the boy overhears a trite conversation between an English girlworking at the bazaar and two young men, and he suddenly realizes that he has been confusing things. It dawns on himthat the bazaar, which he thought would be so exotic and exciting, is really only a commercialized place to buy things.Furthermore, he now realizes that Mangan’s sister is just a girl who will not care whether he fulfills his promise to buy her something at the bazaar.

His conversation with Mangan’s sister, during which he promised he would buy her something,was really only small talk — as meaningless as the one between the English girl and her companions. He leaves Araby feeling ashamed and upset. This epiphany signals a change in the narrator — from an innocent, idealistic boy to anadolescent dealing with harsh realities. Narrator’s Aunt The narrator’s aunt, who is a mother figure in the story, takes the narrator with her to do the marketing. When it seemsas though the uncle has forgotten his promise to the narrator that he could go to the bazaar, she warns the boy that he mayhave to “put off’ the bazaar “for this night of Our Lord.” While this statement makes her seem strict in a religious sense,she also exhibits empathy for the boy’s plight. She pleads his case when the uncle forgets about the boy’s plans to go to Araby. Narrator’s UncleThe narrator’s uncle seems self-centered and very unreliable.

When the narrator reminds him that he wants to go to thebazaar, he replies, “Yes, boy, I know.” But on the Saturday evening of the bazaar, he has forgotten, which causes thenarrator to arrive at the bazaar very late. When the uncle finally shows up, he has been drinking, and as the boy leaves for the bazaar he begins reciting the opening lines of the poem, “The Arab’s Farewell to his Steed.” Joyce’s characterizationof the uncle bears resemblance to his own father, who liked to drink and was often in debt. Joyce’s inclusion of Mrs. Mercer, the pawnbroker’s widow who waits for the uncle to return, suggests that the uncle owes money. Themes A sensitive boy confuses a romantic crush and religious enthusiasm. He goes to Araby, a bazaar with an exotic,Oriental theme, in order to buy a souvenir for the object of his crush. The boy arrives late, however, and when heoverhears a shallow conversation a female clerk is having with her male friends and sees the bazaar is closing down, herealizes that he has allowed his imagination to carry him away. He leaves without a souvenir, feeling foolish and angrywith himself.

Alienation and LonelinessThe narrator never shares any of his feelings concerning Mangan’s sister with anyone. He isolates himself from his friends, who seem terribly young to him once his crush begins, and from his family, who seem caught up in their ownworld. Mangan’s sister is also completely unaware of the narrator’s feelings for her. Consequently, when he suddenlyrealizes how foolish he has been, his anger at himself is intensified by his alienation from everyone and the resulting feeling of isolation. About Dubliners : James Joyce : 9781904919537 9781904919537 Science Fiction About James Joyce James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He came from a reasonably wealthy family which, predominantly because of the recklessness of Joyce's father John, was soon plunged into financial hardship. The young Joyce attended Clongowes College, Belvedere College and, eventually, University College, Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, and eloped with her to Croatia.

From this point until the end of his life, Joyce lived as an exile, moving from Trieste to Rome, and then to Zurich and Paris. His major works are Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941, by which time he had come to be regarded as one of the greatest novelists the world ever produced. show more Follow us

Question: Who wrote the book ‘Dubliners’, first published in 1914?
Answer: James Joyce