Dubliners

by James Joyce (Author), Terence Brown (Introduction)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.45

  This short story collection draws a vivid portrait of Joyce's Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, with rich imagery and characterization.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $5.79

  The first products of Joyce's maturity, these stories look sideways to the tender realism of Chekhov and forward to Joyce's later work Portrait of the Artist. In the most celebrated tale, The Dead, the author constructs the first of his poetic monologues.

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  $6.70

  Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature.

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $15.52

  His stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience. The stories all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. They offer a moving portrait of an entire world and era long since disappeared.