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  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241956854
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00

Dubliners




New edition of the Penguin Essential featuring fifteen brilliantly compelling stories about ordinary lives

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.'

From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.

  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241956854
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

James Joyce

James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin in 1882. At twenty years old, Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include Chamber Music, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach, and Finnegans Wake. Ulysses required seven years to complete and Finnegans Wake took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.

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Praise for Dubliners

In Joyce's eyes Dublin is the whole world

J.G. Ballard

Joyce celebrates the lives of ordinary men and women

Anthony Burgess, Observer

Joyce's early stories remain undimmed in their brilliance

Sunday Times