Dubliners - Softcover

James Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580491650 ISBN 13: 9781580491655

Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

With an introduction by Colm Tibn

From the Publisher:

8 1-hour cassettes

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1580491650
• ISBN 13: 9781580491655
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 190