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Dubliners

James Joyce, Classics HQ

Publisher: Classics HQ

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Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and ​in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook.

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully portrays frustrations and aborted desires to escape the mundane; transformative epiphanies both great and small; and the restraints, loneliness, violence, and contemplations of lives lived.

Though Joyce's subjects were considered as taboo as his language was unsavory, Dubliners was a milestone work praised for its unflinching realism. It remains a transcendent and relatable portrait of the perils—and acceptance—of the human condition.
Available since: 02/22/2022.
Print length: 190 pages.

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