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.
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Dubliners is Joyce at his most accessible and most profound, and this edition is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author\'s original wishes.
These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as Araby, Grace, and The Dead, delve into the heart of the city of Joyce\'s birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners\' speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their outer and inner lives.
A definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language James Joyce\'s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of dear dirty Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century.
Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.
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
