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Dubliners

Text and Criticism; Revised Edition
By James Joyce
Series: The Viking Critical Library
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Dubliners is a collection of fifteen compelling stories that illuminate the lives of ordinary Dublin citizens at the turn of the 20th century. James Joyce employs scrupulous, deadpan realism to reveal deep human truths, exploring themes from spiritual paralysis to social and personal awakening. Stories such as "The Sisters," "Two Gallants," and "The Dead" showcase Joyce's revolutionary narrative style, blending the mundane with the profound in a series of vivid, intimate portraits.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Dubliners is ideal for readers interested in classic literature, modernist fiction, and keen explorations of human nature through subtle psychological insight and finely crafted storytelling.

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In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.

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This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce’s groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed preface to Dubliners.

With the fifteen stories in Dubliners, Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative art to places it had never been before.

Series: The Viking Critical Library

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Critics praise Dubliners for its rigorous economy of language and masterful attention to detail, capturing the complex reality of experience. It is heralded as the foundation of Joyce's artistic development and noted for renewing readers' perception of reality and deepening empathy. The prose is celebrated for its authentic rhythm and symbolic design, marking a hallmark of Joyce's mature fiction.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140247749

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 1996

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Contributors:

  • Edited by Robert Scholes
  • Edited by A. Walton Litz

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 357g

Pages: 512

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Fiction General Fiction James Joyce Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: The Viking Critical Library

About the Author

James Joyce (1882–1941), an Irish poet and novelist, was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His works include Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Colum McCann (foreword) is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Let the Great World Spin and of TransAtlantic. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he now lives in New York City.

Terence Brown (introduction and notes) is an emeritus fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Roman Muradov (cover illustrator) has done illustrations for an array of clients, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, NPR, and Dark Horse Comics. He lives in San Francisco.

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