Dubliners

Reading time: about 5 h
Length: 67,570 words · 152 pages in print
Structure: 15 chapters
Language: English
Era: Modern

Fifteen stories of the city James Joyce had left, arranged, as he said, in the order of childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. Written mostly between 1904 and 1907, the collection was delayed for years by publishers’ fears of libel and indecency and finally appeared in 1914.

Joyce called his style here one of “scrupulous meanness”: plain, exact prose, each story turning on a moment of recognition he called an epiphany. It is the foundation of the modern short story in English.

“The Dead” was written last, after Joyce had softened towards the city he had spent the other fourteen stories indicting, and it stands apart from them: longer, warmer, and the piece in which the method of the book becomes a method for the novels.

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