Dubliners (AmazonClassics Edition) 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.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, James Joyce (1882–1941) was a novelist, short-story writer, and poet, best known for his novels Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, as well as his short story collection, Dubliners. Though he and his wife spent their lives abroad, Joyce chose to focus his fiction on his birthplace, believing that if he could “get to the heart of Dublin,” he could “get to the heart of all the cities of the world.” An inspiration to a diverse range of authors—among them, Samuel Beckett, John Steinbeck, and Salman Rushdie—Joyce is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781542049238 |
| ISBN 10 | 1542049237 |
| Title | Dubliners (AmazonClassics Edition) |
| Author | James Joyce |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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