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About this audiobook
"Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyceʼs "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound.
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 Joyceʼs life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language—an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from “stories of my childhood” through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics, Self-Help
Length7 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 12, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Sisters
9Counterparts
2An Encounter
10Clay
3Araby
11A Painful Case
4Eveline
12Ivy Day in the Committee Room
5After the Race
13A Mother
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6Two Gallants
14Grace
7The Boarding House
15The Dead
8A Little Cloud