Dubliners (Summarized Edition)

Dubliners gathers fifteen anatomies of early twentieth-century Dublin - domestic interiors, streets, public houses - rendered in the spare prose Joyce called "scrupulous meanness." From "Araby" and "Eveline" to the culminating "The Dead," the collection charts paralysis and sudden "epiphanies," when ordinary gestures reveal moral and historical pressure. Its realist surface, tuned to speech and so...