It is said that if tomorrow Dublin were to perish from the face of the earth, it could be reconstructed in its entirety from the works of James Joyee. Dubliners is a masterpieee of literary and psychological innovation, a critical examination of a nation in a state of social and political paralysis, and the stunning debut of a young author--but most of all, it is a vivid pieture of a place and a time and a people. Joyee said he wrote it in a style of "scrupulous meanness." His unsparing attention to the warts-and-aU details of his subjeet made people squeamish--so squeamish that it took him nearly a decade to find a publisher who would agree to print the books.

  It is said that if tomorrow Dublin were to perish from the face of the earth, it could be reconstructed in its entirety from the works of James Joyee. Dubliners is a masterpieee of literary and psychological innovation, a critical examintion of a nation in a state of social and political paralysis, and the stunning debut of a young author--but most of all, it is a vivid pieture of a place and a time and a people. Joyee said he wrote it in a style of "scrupulous meanness." His unsparing attention to the warts-and-aU details of his subjeet made people squeamish--so squeamish that it took him nearly a decade to find a publisher who would agree to print the books.

INTRODUCTION

CHRONOLOGY OF JAMES JOYCS"S

 IIFE AND WORK

HISTORICAL CONTEXT oF DuMiners

    DUBLINERS

THS SISTERS

AN ENCOUNTER

ARABY

EVELINE

AIRIER THE RACE

Two GALLANTS

THE BOARDING House

A LrrTLE CLOUD

COUNTERPARTS

CLAY

A PAINFUL CAsa

IvY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM

A MOTHER

GRACE

THE DEAD

NOTES

INTERPRETIVE NOTES

CRITICAL EXCERPTS

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE

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