Dubliners Reveals Longing Beneath Everyday Dublin Lives
Ordinary Dublin lives become charged with longing, frustration and recognition in Joyce’s classic stories. Dubliners remains powerful because its restraint lets desire, paralysis and moral tension gather quietly but unmistakably. The city feels alive in every small hesitation.
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Dubliners Reveals Longing Beneath Everyday Dublin Lives
Ordinary Dublin lives become charged with longing, frustration and recognition in Joyce’s classic stories. Dubliners remains powerful because its restraint lets desire, paralysis and moral tension gather quietly but unmistakably. The city feels alive in every small hesitation.
- Book Synopsis
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Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century and a moral history of a nation and a people whose "golden age" has passed. His richly drawn characters-at once intensely Irish and utterly universal-may forever haunt the reader. In mesmerizing writing rich with evocative imagery, Joyce delves into the heart of the city of his birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners' speech and portraying with remarkable realism their outer and inner lives. This magnificent collection of fifteen stories, including such touchstones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," and in the definitive text authorized by the Joyce estate-collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions of Dubliners to reflect the author's wishes-reveals Joyce at his most accessible and most profound.
Featuring a new introduction by acclaimed writer Colum McCann and the stunning cover art and sumptuous packaging that are the hallmarks of the Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe series, this edition of Dubliners is worthy of the centennial of one of the twentieth century's most important books.
Ideal for readers who:
- Turn to a classic portrait of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century.
- Appreciate short stories where ordinary lives reveal paralysis, longing and moral tension.
- Are reading Joyce at his most accessible and haunting.
- Prefer collections where restraint makes the final emotional blow stronger.
- About The Author
- James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was nonetheless educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all of his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780143107453
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, (07 August 2014)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 370 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 214 x 144 x 24 mm
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