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by James Joyce
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Dubliners Summary
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Dubliners -- Microsoft Reader ebook. The classic work of James Joyce chronicles in fifteen short stories the lives of common people in Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century. Each story depicts a different morally dramatic theme and at times is inherently critical of the Dublin life that Joyce would soon leave behind. This novel sets the stage for Joyce’s later more modernist works which include, Ulysses and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. |
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| THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: "I am not long for this world," and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. 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, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. 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. Old Cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs to supper. While my aunt was ladling out my stirabout he said, as if returning to some former remark of his: |
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| James Joyce, one of the most studied and influential writers of the 20th century, submits a chronology of Dublin's poorer class in 15 intense stories paired up on parallel subjects: adolescent life, sporting life, artistic life, political life, religious life. The Dublin that Joyce portrays is a tarnished and squalid background against which he positions individual experiences subtly reawakening themes common to everyone. Even though the city fosters death and disease, these focused tales invigorate the possibility of a more precious day-to-day life which is most often seen as meaningless, empty, and repulsive. Human nature, in Joyce's observation, finds it difficult to deal with failure and incompetent to face fear or loss. The short story "The Dead" is regarded as a masterpiece of the form. Written almost a hundred years ago, these accounts leave an impression of timelessness in man's search for happiness and fulfillment. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language -- an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.
Jacket portrait courtesy of Berenice Abbott/Commerce Graphics Ltd., Inc. |
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| Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from 'stories of my childhood' through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland. |
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Fifteen stories offer vivid, tightly focused observations of the lives of Dublin's poorer classes. This portrait of Dublin and its people is not always a flattering one. Joyce never romanticizes poverty, and explores how need and social entrapment adversely affect character. He is often deeply critical of Irish provinciality, the Catholic Church, and the Irish political climate of the time. But the collection is called Dubliners, not Dublin. Joyce does not merely right about conditions. The real power of Dubliners is Joyce's depiction of the strong characters who live and work in this distinctive and bleak city. |
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