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Dubliners
James Joyce · 2001 · 98 pages
Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.
Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish everyman.
Read these 15 personal tales in this unabridged, affordably printed volume that drives the reader to the last page.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE SISTERS 3
AN ENCOUNTER 7
ARABY 11
EVELINE 14
AFTER THE RACE 16
TWO GALLANTS 19
THE BOARDING HOUSE 24
A LITTLE CLOUD 27
COUNTERPARTS 34
CLAY 40
A PAINFUL CASE 43
IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM 48
A MOTHER 57
GRACE 63
THE DEAD 75
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Leonard Cohen
“That paragraph. It’s not the work of an author, but maybe five lines. It’s those five lines that will get me reluctantly to explore the rest of the guy’s work. But that paragraph I’ve never forgotten. There’s that paragraph ‘Snow was general all over Ireland.’ It described the snow. It’s Montreal. It’s our snow, our black iron gates in Montreal. It was perfect.”↗
Carson Mccullers
“This week I’ve been reading [Dubliners.] How such a spasm of poetry could have come out of the grimy Dublin streets of that time is miraculous to me. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,] I also read every year or so. … Whenever I think of artists having a hard time I think of James Joyce. He had one hell of a time to earn a living for himself and his family. [Dubliners] was suppressed, and at one time burnt, I believe [Ulysses] was suppressed and pirated all over the world, and of course James Joyce did not receive any of the pirated money. He earned only the fame and the grandeur of a noble spirit.”↗
Sharon Horgan
“As a young student living in Dublin, I always thought it vaguely pretentious that I should be reading Joyce. But I couldn’t even begin to start with Ulysses, and then I discovered Dubliners, and thought, this is perfect, this is my kind of thing: An evocative but simple style of writing. I was so delighted for myself: ‘I’ve read Joyce, I can tick that off my list of smart things I should be doing.’ It was just such a surprise to find it accessible.”↗
