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Dubliners

By James Joyce
Series: Canons
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Dubliners by James Joyce is a collection of fifteen short stories, each capturing a slice of life in early 20th-century Dublin. Through a series of varied characters, the stories explore themes of identity, paralysis, and the mundane challenges of everyday existence. Joyce's vivid observations and deep psychological insights provide a poignant portrayal of the city's middle-class life.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by vivid portrayals of early 20th-century Dublin life and characters. This collection of stories offers a poignant exploration of human experiences and themes of paralysis, longing, and self-discovery, bringing to life the struggles and ambitions of ordinary people.

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Dubliners

Joyce's brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Toibin.

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In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth.

In 'Araby', a young boy struggles with everyday tasks in the face of a growing infatuation with his neighbour's sister; in 'The Boarding House', a single mother orchestrates a marriage proposal for her daughter; in 'The Dead', the ideas of birth and decay are played out over the course of a dinner.

From short, lyrical stories to the novella-length masterpiece which concludes this collection, Dubliners is as alive with feeling as it was when first published.

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James Joyce's Dubliners is lauded for its vivid depiction of Dublin as a microcosm of the world. Critics highlight Joyce's influence on short-story writers and praise his ability to evoke multiple meanings and mysteries. His prose is noted for its vernacular specificity and deep understanding of human fallibility, with a unique portrayal of Dublin life. Joyce's style is celebrated for being both dazzling and controlled, combining serious themes with humour and honesty.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786896162

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 December 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Canons

Edition: Main - Canons reissue

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Colm Toibin
  • Introduction by Colm Toibin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 272

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Fiction General Fiction James Joyce Literary Fiction Series: Canons

About the Author

James Joyce, born in 1882, attended University College Dublin, before travelling through Europe in his early twenties. His work includes the semi-autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), the landmark work of modernist fiction Ulysses (1922) and its successor Finnegans Wake (1939). He died in 1941 in Zurich.

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