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by James Joyce; Robert Scholes (Editor); A. Walton Litz (Editor)

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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.

Summary

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from 'stories of my childhood' through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.

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From the publisher

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.

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  • Title Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition
  • Author James Joyce; Robert Scholes (Editor); A. Walton Litz (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1996-08-01
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • ISBN 9780140247749 / 0140247742
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.94 in (19.84 x 12.85 x 2.39 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Dublin (Ireland) - Fiction, Joyce, James
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96002650
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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