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by: James Joyce
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Binding: Perfect Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781580491655
ISBN: 1580491650
Label: Prestwick House, Inc.
Manufacturer: Prestwick House, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 190
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
Release Date: September 01, 2006
Sales Rank: 20847
Studio: Prestwick House, Inc.
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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce's use of textures, dialect, and symbols. Each of the beautifully written short stories in this collection precisely details a brief scene in the life of a resident of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Although the characters do not know each other, their experiences unfold along the same streets and often overlap thematically. Their tragedies mirror that of Ireland, a country struggling for political identity and held back, in Joyce's view, by rigid religious ideas and adherence to tradition. Joyce's great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city's complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories. Chronologically, too, the stories appear to progress; portrayals of youthful confusion and disillusionment in the opening story, 'The Sisters,' become the haunting midlife meditations of 'The Dead.' Like his masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce's Dubliners displays consummate control of nuances, emotions, and images.
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Rating:  - ONE OF THE BEST - EVER!!!
One of the best short-story collections ever written. I advise you brush up on Irish history, particularly the late 19th, early 20th century so you catch some of the political/religious in-jokes. `The Dead' is arguably the best short story ever written in English - or any other language for that matter. My favorite though is `Two Gallants,' hilarious & a real mystery till the very end. University profs love shoving `Araby' down their students' throats because it supposedly displays most ... Read More
Rating: - "A long mournful whistle into the mist"
Although James Joyce lived outside of his native Ireland for most of his life, his work is as Irish as peat smoke. His story collection Dubliners, published in 1914, consists of fifteen slices of early 20th century life in the city where Joyce was born. Dublin itself is a detailed backdrop, and the self-awareness of the characters plays out on Dublin's streets and interiors. The reader doesn't find rollicking plots here, but the character sketches are rewarding and somewhat open-ended. Many ... Read More
Rating: - Shame On You If You Haven't Read This
If you read fiction or write fiction and you haven't read Joyce's "Dubliners," well, shame on you. You're missing a slice of Dublin life, of Ireland itself from the turn of the last century, that can't be easily forgotten. And you're missing the greatest piece of short fiction written in the English language -- the last story in the collection, "The Dead." I could spend the next three days discussing the intricacies of this story, what makes it great, how it breathes life, how you feel changed after ... Read More
Rating:  - Dubliners (Eveline) James Joyce
The book was over priced! Well written but people are taking advantage of readers of the dubliners series.
Rating: - Overrated but good
I've long proclaimed that Dubliners is Joyce's greatest literary achievement. I'd read the book first in the mid-80s, then the early 90s, and just a while back. While I stand by my initial assessment that it's Joyce's best work, with age, and my own forays into fiction, I see that it is not as good as I once thought, although it still has moments of greatness.
The book is fifteen short stories that were mostly written in the years 1904-1905, and were dubbed by Joyce as being `epiphanies'- moments ... Read More
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