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Publisher: Alma
Author: James Joyce
ISBN: 9781847496317
Year: 2017
Format: Paperback
Classics, Fiction
Dubliners
by
James Joyce
Dubliners by
James Joyce
Reviews
"His writing is not about something; it is that something itself."
Samuel Beckett
Summary
Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth-century. From the unsettling adventure of two truant schoolboys to the crafty schemes of two con-men, from a young woman's refusal to abandon Ireland and elope with a sailor to a man's moment of clarity during an annual dance party, these stories offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era which has all but disappeared.
James Joyce’s first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for the understanding of the author’s development as a writer and endures as a masterly example of the short-story form.