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Dubliners Paperback - 1993
by Joyce, James
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Details
- Title Dubliners
- Author Joyce, James
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wordsworth Editions, Limited, London
- Publication date 1993-04-05
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP8107793
- ISBN 9781853260483 / 1853260487
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.5 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
- Reading level 900
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 7
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Reader reviews for Dubliners
Review summary
Readers largely admire Joyce’s precise, economical prose and his vivid portrait of early?20th?century Dublin. The Dead is the standout, with Eveline and A Painful Case also praised. Many highlight the sharp dialogue, atmosphere, and a life?spanning structure that surfaces themes of constraint, religion, politics, and longing that still feel current. Others find the collection static or repetitive in its frustrations, with thinly developed characters and little action, and several note that cultural context or footnotes help. Overall, it’s viewed as an essential yet sometimes austere entry point to Joyce whose effect varies by reader patience and background.
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle picture of the struggles of men and women to rise above the constraints of their everyday lives.
