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An edition of Dubliners (1914)

Dubliners

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  • 3.79 ·
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  • 70 Have read

AIthough James Joyce left Ireland as a young man and spent most of his adult life on the European continent, all his books have Ireland as their geographic center. When asked near the end of his life if he ever intended to return to Ireland, Joyce responded candidly, "Have I ever left it?"

In the fifteen classic stories that comprise Dubliners, James Joyce seeks to explore the "significance of trivial things." While the stories can be regarded as separate and independent entities, they can also be considered as parts of a larger whole, reinforcing and illuminating each other, acting as pieces of a mosaic that captures moods from childhood, young adulthood, courtship, and married life, as well as the public life of church, state, and the arts. Included in the collection is "The Dead," Joyce's most enduring and evocative piece of short fiction, together with the often anthologized "Araby," "Eveline," and "A Painful Case."

Complementing the edition are eight specially commissioned maps of Dublin that allow the reader to follow the characters in and around the city that Joyce deemed "the center of paralysis," and an introduction by renowned Joyce scholar Don Gifford.
--front flap

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English
Pages
193

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2016, Digireads.com
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2014-12-08, Standard Ebooks
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2013 February 27, LibriVox
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2009 June 17, LibriVox
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2006, W. W. Norton & Company
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2001, Barnes & Noble Books
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2000, "Olma-Press"
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1993, Penguin Books
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1987, Suhrkamp
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New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1992

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6019.09 .D8 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxxv, 192p.
Number of pages
193

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32371336M
Internet Archive
dubliners0000joyc_q1u8
ISBN 10
076072623X
ISBN 13
9780760726235
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B000Q1DO10
Goodreads
13480913

Work Description

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. By rejecting euphemism, he would 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. - Back cover.

Dubliners is a collection of vignettes of Dublin life at the end of the 19th Century written, by Joyce’s own admission, in a manner that captures some of the unhappiest moments of life. Some of the dominant themes include lost innocence, missed opportunities and an inability to escape one’s circumstances.

Joyce’s intention in writing Dubliners, in his own words, was to write a chapter of the moral history of his country, and he chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to him to be the centre of paralysis. He tried to present the stories under four different aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life.
‘The Sisters’, ‘An Encounter’ and ‘Araby’ are stories from childhood. ‘Eveline’, ‘After the Race’, ‘Two Gallants’ and ‘The Boarding House’ are stories from adolescence. ‘A Little Cloud’, ‘Counterparts’, ‘Clay’ and ‘A Painful Case’ are all stories concerned with mature life. Stories from public life are ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ and ‘A Mother and Grace’. ‘The Dead’ is the last story in the collection and probably Joyce’s greatest. It stands alone and, as the title would indicate, is concerned with death.



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Sisters
Encounter
Araby
Eveline
After the Race
Two Gallants
Boarding House
Little Cloud
Counterparts
Clay
A Painful Case
Ivy Day In the Committee Room
Mother
Grace
Dead



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