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-- James Joyce, in a letter to his brother

With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.

The text of this edition has been newly edited by Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and is followed by a new afterword, chronology, and bibliography by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed Preface to Dubliners.]]> 11012 195 260248 book 1914 Dubliners (World's Classics) total:12715|5:4195|4:4747|3:2750|2:770|1:253| 12715 50006 16878 767 5144 3.79 42513 3420 34967086 1425694 23291 0141182458 9780141182452 46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398847m/23291.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398847s/23291.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23291.Dubliners 4.08 608 1914 3 6 false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 10 03:59:25 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 19 23:51:37 -0700 2009 2-3 Dubliners, hey? Honestly, didn't love it.

Joyce's Dublin is defined by a sense of paralysis. (I'm not making this up; just read any piece of criticism on the subject - it gets repetitive.) Many of the critics like to extend this to talk about the themes of 'gnomon' and 'simony' (don't...more...]]> 29118517 708858 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.92 9746 1914 5 10 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969 Sun Aug 03 07:52:11 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 14:26:57 -0800 2008 7? 9? more...]]> 35833146 175635 23291 0141182458 9780141182452 46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398847m/23291.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398847s/23291.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23291.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 4 3 false Tue Oct 21 04:07:05 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 04:16:46 -0700 2008
There are other stories I've read in my life that I could nearly recite to you and bits of poetry I quite lit...more...]]> 15407627 908253 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 3 3 false Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:10:47 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 12 18:39:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 13896205 706208 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 5 4 true Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 28 20:30:45 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 20:31:29 -0800 2008
It took me much longer than the allotted week to finish this short book, (1) because I am a slow reader by nature, and (2) because I annotated ...more...]]> 3390021 210238 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 4 3 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Sun Jul 22 18:32:25 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:34:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3459241 216373 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 2 3 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 24 10:50:18 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:48:13 -0800 2009 Dubliners, and my general distaste for James Joyce, is a long-standing fact. I won't waste space here by trash-talking "The Dead" like I usually do. The only story I really like in this collection is "Eveline."

I know, I'm the worst English major ev...]]> 13546986 805037 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 5 5 false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 25 13:46:20 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 06 01:54:46 -0700 2009 ]]> 10580679 334021 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 4 2 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 14:31:47 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 15:38:09 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1648413 94602 23291 0141182458 9780141182452 46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398847m/23291.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398847s/23291.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23291.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 3 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 09:06:38 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:41:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1460097 99848 23292 0140247742 9780140247749 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398848m/23292.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167398848s/23292.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23292.Dubliners_Text_and_Criticism_Revised_Edition 4.17 131 1914 5 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat May 26 11:38:57 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 12:04:04 -0700 2007 Dubliners certainly earns Joyce this title, even if he had never gone on to write Ulysses. Easily the most accessible of Joyce's works, this short story cycle serves as a "how-to" manual for crafting amazing stories. All readers of English sh...more...]]> 48390063 137467 1494932 0586044760 9780586044766 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184249156m/1494932.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184249156s/1494932.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1494932.Dubliners 3.00 4 1914 2 2 false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 21:39:46 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 15:50:10 -0800 2009 4432099 120879 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 5 2 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sun Aug 12 10:25:09 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 10:27:13 -0700 2007
Joyce is at his best here weaving a story that flows with...more...]]> 9570516 65913 77233 0486268705 9780486268705 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900010m/77233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900010s/77233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77233.Dubliners 3.84 237 1914 4 1 false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 26 15:02:09 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 26 19:33:39 -0700 2008 James Joyce's Ulysses (a.k.a. the greatest novel in the English language) and Finnegan's Wake (a.k.a. the greatest novel in made-up dream language). A beloved math teacher from high school raved about Finnegan, saying he read two lines a night--with a ruler and a Gaeli...more...]]> 718724 51962 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 2 1 false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Apr 14 09:47:31 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 14 09:53:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 10375853 327003 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Dec 13 11:21:24 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 11:32:28 -0800 2007 Portrait of the Artist kinda worked for me. Ulysses impressed me, but I never in a million years would have made it through without the guidance of an enthusiastic professor.

Dubliners displays just as much genius as Ulysses, I think. ...more...]]> 22600228 974210 321594 0140042229 9780140042221 17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189474478m/321594.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189474478s/321594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321594.Dubliners 4.12 108 Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British & Irish publishers & printers found it offensively immoral. 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, & 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 & 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 & ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" thru tales of public life.  Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.]]> 1914 4 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976 Tue May 20 00:59:58 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 01:04:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 38847482 836744 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 21:24:19 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 21:25:51 -0800 2008 Dubliners, published in 1914, consists of fifteen slices of early 20th century life in the city where Joyce was born. Dublin itself is a detailed backdrop, and the ...more...]]> 72904779 1969317 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 5 0 false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:36:17 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 15:03:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 70513619 775153 11012 0192839993 9780192839992 501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864m/11012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394864s/11012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners 3.93 12715 1914 5 0 false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:18:56 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:29:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1069403