Editions

Dubliners

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241956854

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 16mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 142g

  • RRP: £7.99

Dubliners

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.'

From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's 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 Joyce's native Dublin to life.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241956854

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 16mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 142g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • Joyce's early stories remain undimmed in their brilliance

    Sunday Times

  • Joyce celebrates the lives of ordinary men and women

    Anthony Burgess, Observer

  • In Joyce's eyes Dublin is the whole world

    J.G. Ballard

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About the Author

James Joyce

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.

James Joyce

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