Dubliners (Modern Library)

Dubliners (Modern Library)

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed.Â Â The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound.Â Â The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work.Â Â It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin.Â Â The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life.Â Â Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.
Country USA
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 1993-03-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679600497

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