Dubliners - Illustrated Edition

Rich as pecan pie James Joyce is not always easy to read. His stories in The Dubliners are--for the most part--simple tales about not so simple people and events. He has no deep hidden meanings in these stories, but they are rich with human foibles, contradictions, hardness and softness, and wonder. To be short, his characters are three dimensional and very real to me. I am able not only to get inside of them, I also see and hear them as they think and speak.We have not seen a new Joyce in my lifetime of reading literature.. A ture classic A true classic, but references made in passing challenge complete understanding. The book was part of a seniors college class taught be a retired English teacher who has been to Ireland many times.. Good Read. Good Read. I really enjoyed the short stories that he wrote. I can see why this is considered a classic.

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences