Dubliners by James Joyce

Dubliners by James Joyce

Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it. These stories introduce us to the city, which fed Joyce's entire creative output, and to many of the characters who made it such a well of literary inspiration. Rich in humor and musical allusion, they contain some of Joyce's most powerful and moving prose.

In Joyce's eyes, Dublin is the whole world * * JG. Ballard * *
Joyce made me want to write. His use of language was dazzling, impressionistic but controlled, rhythmic, diverse, achingly lyrical. He made people live on the page. He was serious, hilarious, sensitively romantic, filthy and absolutely honest -- Carol Birch
With just one collection of stories, Joyce left his mark on almost every short-story writer who followed him * * Guardian * *

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 Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941 in Zurich.

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ISBN 13	9780857864161
ISBN 10	0857864165
Title	Dubliners
Author	James Joyce
Series	Canons
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2012-06-07
Number of pages	272
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