Dubliners

Author: Joyce, James, Davies, Laurence (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire), Carabine, Dr Keith (University of

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Published on 5 April 1993 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Classics' series.

Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.

In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature.