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Dubliners (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
James Joyce
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Description for Dubliners (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
Paperback. 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 title offers the collection of fifteen stories, including such touchstones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead,". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
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, ... Read more
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Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143107453
SKU
V9780143107453
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Ref
99-98
About James Joyce
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 none the less 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Dubliners (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
“A hundred years on . . . Dubliners has been absorbed into our literary landscape, but in the early part of the twentieth century it was the sort of book that hadn’t been seen much before, certainly from an Irish writer, and much of it shocked the conventional literary world. . . . [Joyce] was taking the lived landscape of ... Read more