Name: Dubliners
Price: 25.39 EUR
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Author: James Joyce
ISBN: 9789350330944

Type

Physical Book

Author

James Joyce

Publisher

Maple Press Pvt Ltd

Language

English

Pages

218

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9789350330944

Synopsis "Dubliners"

First Published in 1914, Dubliners is a beautiful collection of vignettes describing Irish middle class life in and around Dublin at the end of the 19th century. Joyce's intention in writing Dubliners, in his own words, was to write a chapter of the moral history of his own country and he chose Dublin for the scene because the city appeared to him the centre of paralysis and decay. He tried to present it to the apathetic public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. ?The Sisters, ?An Encounter? and ?Araby? are stories from childhood. ?Eveline, ? After the Race, ?Two Gallants? and ?The Boarding House? are stories from adolescence. ?A Little Cloud. Counterparts, Clay and ?A Painful Case? are all Stories concerned with mature life. Stories from public life are ?Ivy Day in the Committee Room. ?A Mother? and ?Grace. The Dead? is the last story in the collection and most certainly Joyce's greatest. It stands alone and as the Title would suggest, is concerned with death.

James Joyce

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James Joyce (Dublin, 1882-Zurich, 1941) was an Irish writer, globally recognized as one of the most important and influential of the 20th century, acclaimed for his masterpiece, Ulysses (1922), and for his controversial later novel, Finnegans Wake (1939). His series of short stories titled Dubliners (1914), as well as his semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), have also been highly valued. Joyce is a prominent representative of the avant-garde literary movement known as Anglo-Saxon modernism, alongside authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, or Wallace Stevens.

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