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A comprehensive A to Z of Dubais ever-growing road network with a thorough index giving the exact location of every street every hotel every shopping centre every landmark & every major residential & commercial building. Each map spread features a satellite image of the featured area on one page opposite a detailed vector map of the same area. ...

Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce & powerful High Kings at Tara with the tale of two lovers the princely Conall & the ravishing Deirdre whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring beginning Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries. Through the interlocking stories of a powerfully-imagined cast of characters
- druids & chieftains monks & smugglers merchants & mercenaries noblewomen rebels & cowards
- we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city.

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Explore Dublin Explore the places that inspired Dublins literary greats
- Swift Yeats Beckett & Joyce Enjoy the art then relax
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A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; & a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career... This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle" & " Circle of Friends" is Maeve Binchy at her best
- her trademark warmth wit & compassion are unmistakable."
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James Joyces Dubliners" is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This " Penguin Classics" edition

Includes:: notes & an introduction by Terence Brown. Joyces first major work written when he was only twenty-five brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life portraying ordinary often defeated lives with unflinching realism. From " The Sisters" a vivid portrait of childhood faith & guilt to " Araby" a timeless evocation of the inexplicable yearnings of adolescence to " The Dead" in which Gabriel Conroy is gradually brought to a painful epiphany regarding the nature of his existence Joyce draws a realistic & memorable cast of Dubliners together in an powerful exploration of overarching themes. Writing of social decline sexual desire & exploitation corruption & personal failure he creates a brilliantly compelling unique vision of the world & of human experience. James Joyce (1882-1941) the eldest of ten children was born in Dublin but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works " Ulysses" & " Finnegans Wake". He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life & was plagued by near blindness & the grief of his daughters mental illness. If you enjoyed " Dubliners" you might like Joyces " Ulysses" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Joyce redeems his " Dubliners" assures their identity & makes their social existence appear permanent & immortal like the streets they walk". (Tom Paulin). " Joyces early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance". (" Sunday Times")."

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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 & poets patriots earnest or cynical & people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly & challenging every precedent & piety in Irish literature. ...

Snow was general all over Irel&. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain on the treeless hills falling softly upon the Bog of Allen & farther westward softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest to a young womans dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyces native Dublin to life. ...

I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne James Joyces disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers resisting their demands to remove swear words real place names & much else including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would retard the course of civilisation in Ireland. Joyces aim was to tell the truth
- to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century & by rejecting euphemism reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country. Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners
- a death an encounter an opportunity not taken a memory rekindled
- & collectively they paint a portrait of a nation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.


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