Dubliners

With a brand-new Afterword by Malachy McCourt, this edition of one of the most famous short story collections in English literature draws a vivid, unflinching portrait of Joyce's Dublin at the turn of the 20th century, with rich imagery and characterization. Revised reissue.

Main Author: Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Signet Book, 2007.
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Summary: With a brand-new Afterword by Malachy McCourt, this edition of one of the most famous short story collections in English literature draws a vivid, unflinching portrait of Joyce's Dublin at the turn of the 20th century, with rich imagery and characterization. Revised reissue.
Physical Description: 256 pages
ISBN: 9780451530417
0451530411
Author Notes: James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin.

Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.

Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941.

(Bowker Author Biography)