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Dubliners
Availability:In StockContributor:James JoyceSeries:Vintage ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1993-04-06Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679739906ISBN-10:679739904UPC:9780679739906Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Political, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCBVJYJJDF
This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce's groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed preface to Dubliners.

With the fifteen stories in Dubliners 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 art to places it had never been before.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679739906ISBN-10:679739904UPC:9780679739906Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Political, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCBVJYJJDF

James Joyce, the twentieth century's most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. His writings include Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Pomes Penyeach (1927), Finnegan's Wake (1939), and an early draft of A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero (1944). Ulysses required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, Finnegan's Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.


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