Dubliners

by Joyce, James | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 05/04/1993 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of the Wordsworth Classics series
Paperback | 192 pages
198 x 127 x 11mm | 144g

Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.

In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature.