Dubliners

A definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as “Araby,” “Grace,” and “The Dead,” delve into the heart of the city of Joyce’s birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners’ speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their outer and inner lives. Dubliners is Joyce at his most accessible and most profound, and this edition is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author’s original wishes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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192 pages

Average rating: 7.09

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Anonymous
Jul 26, 2024
8/10 stars
This book contains great vignettes of the everyday life of citizens of Dublin. Although most of the stories seem rather tame compared to what modern readers would be interested in, you’re able to see how religion and societal norms mold the decisions the characters make. Not a thrilling book but showcases delightful prose.
E Clou
May 10, 2023
8/10 stars
It's obviously a classic for a reason, but I read a great deal and I found it so difficult to parse sometimes that I had to look up what this or that story was about and then start the story over again with the background clue. It seemed to require so much knowledge about the particular time and place it was written in, and almost never clued the reader in. It is sort of amazing the language in so many other classics has aged so well considering that Dubliners-aging could have equally affected them.

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