Dubliners (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

by James Joyce

Overview

It took Joyce nine difficult years to get this now-classic collection of short stories published, at last, in 1914. They show Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century.
Each tale includes an epiphany: a moment (often understated) where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of these characters would later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses.
The collection starts with stories narrated by child protagonists, and then addresses the lives and concerns of progressively older people, following Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity.
In 1987 John Huston made a film of "The Dead", the most elegiac of the pieces here.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014455671
Publisher:	Revenant
Publication date:	05/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	434 KB

About the Author

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882 – 1941), an Irish novelist and poet, is considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Having begun with the comparatively conventional narrative style of the Dubliners (1914), he moved towards more formal experimentation with novels like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). He is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominently the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. . His complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.

Date of Birth:

February 2, 1882

Date of Death:

January 13, 1941

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Zurich, Switzerland

Education:

B.A., University College, Dublin, 1902

Website:

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie