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  • Published: 3 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241405918
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

Dubliners




The collection of realist short stories that brought James Joyce's vision of Dublin to the world with a new introduction by Joycean scholar Anne Fogarty

'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance' Sunday Times

James Joyce's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. The stories within Dubliners are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. Joyce writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and human experience.

'Joyce redeems his Dubliners, assures their identity, and makes their social existence appear permanent and immortal, like the streets they walk' Tom Paulin

With a new introduction and notes by Anne Fogarty.

  • Published: 3 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241405918
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

James Joyce

James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin in 1882. At twenty years old, Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include Chamber Music, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach, and Finnegans Wake. Ulysses required seven years to complete and Finnegans Wake took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.

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