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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 on 2 February 1882 in Dublin. He studied modern languages at University College, Dublin. After graduating, Joyce moved to Paris for a brief period in 1902. In 1904 Joyce met Nora Barnacle, with whom he would spend the rest of his life and they moved to Europe and settled in Trieste where Joyce worked as a teacher. His first published work was a book of poems called Chamber Music (1907). This was followed by Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and the play Exiles (1918). In 1915 the First World War forced Joyce and Nora and their two children to move to Zürich. Joyce's most famous novel, Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922. In the same year he started work on his last great book, Finnegan's Wake (1939). James Joyce died in Zürich on 13 January 1941.

James Joyce

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