Dubliners
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic Edition
by James Joyce
Dubliners is the first of James Joyce’s major works to be published in book form, preceded by Chamber Music, a volume of poetry which appeared in 1907.
Dubliners is not a novel, but consists of a series of fifteen short stories, which Joyce intended to accurately reflect the life of the contemporary middle class in Ireland. Each story centers around the “epiphany”, that moment of clarity when a character suddenly understands, for the first time, something important or fundamental about themselves, their life or their surroundings. The arrangement of the stories mirrors the progress of human life, as the protagonists of the stories advance as life progresses, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood and old age. Continue reading “Dubliners”