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I picked up my library copy the other day, but when I saw that I could get the audio version with Frank McCourt's beautiful voice (and 13 other Irish actors whose dialogue they let their imitative talents shine and their Irish bloom), I just had to drive to pick up that gem!
I truly enjoyed Joyce's writing, and also their wonderful brogue! Dubliners is a collection of short stories, published in 1907, by Joyce that focuses on the everyday lives of men, women and children in the Irish capital of ...more
I truly enjoyed Joyce's writing, and also their wonderful brogue! Dubliners is a collection of short stories, published in 1907, by Joyce that focuses on the everyday lives of men, women and children in the Irish capital of ...more
My third read of this classic. To me, whose favorite novel is Joyce's ULYSSES with its wild inventiveness, DUBLINERS seemed like cold noodles at first reading. It's hard to imagine them coming from Joyce's pen. The plots are too Victorian, the characters too conventional, and the storylines too mundane.
And yet, taken as a whole, the book is masterful. It tells the whole scope of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. From the life of a young boy whose first mentor, a priest, has ...more
And yet, taken as a whole, the book is masterful. It tells the whole scope of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. From the life of a young boy whose first mentor, a priest, has ...more
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