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
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This is the Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners" by James Joyce. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent & sinful being. It filled me with fear & yet I longed to be nearer to it & to look upon its deadly work. 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. With " Dubliners" James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction using a scrupulous deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous & sacramental. " The Penguin English Library"
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