Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; The Sisters; An Encounter; Araby; Eveline; After the Race; Two Gallants; The Boarding House; A Little Cloud; Counterparts; Clay; A Painful Case; Ivy Day in the Committee Room; A Mother; Grace; The Dead; Copyright |
Summary |
Dubliners, one of the great short-story collections in the English language, was first published in London on 15 June 1914 by Grant Richards, who had rejected the original set of twelve stories in September 1906; in the interim, according to Joyce, it was turned down by forty publishers. The author is his own best interlocutor:'My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturi |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Fiction.
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fiction (general genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781843513087 |
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1843513080 |
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