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  • Published: 26 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141974583
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Dubliners




The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart.

'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 and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work'

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. With Dubliners, James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental.

This edition is based on the Viking Critical Library edition, edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz. Includes an introduction and notes by Terence Brown.

  • Published: 26 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141974583
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

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