Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories) Paperback - 1991
by James Joyce
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
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.
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- Title Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
- Author James Joyce
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, New York
- Date 1991-05-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0486268705-3-28387091
- ISBN 9780486268705 / 0486268705
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.34 x 0.41 in (21.03 x 13.56 x 1.04 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Dublin (Ireland) - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91008517
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Although James Joyce completed these fifteen stories of Dublin life in 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914--victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the life of Dublin's poorer classes as well as their unconventional themes, coarse language, and mention of actual people and places made publishers of the day reluctant to undertake sponsorship.
Today, the stories are admired for their intense and masterly dissection of "dear dirty Dublin" and for the economy and grace with which Joyce invested this youthful fiction. From the first story "The Sisters," illuminating a young boy's initial encounter with death, through the final piece, "The Dead," considered a masterpiece of the form, these tales represent, as Joyce himself explained, a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that would give the Irish "one good look at themselves." In the end the stories are not just about the Irish; they represent moments of revelation common to all people.
