James Joyce's Dubliners

Hardcover, 200 paĝoj

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 6-a de aŭgusto 1993 de Sinclair-Stevenson.

ISBN:
978-1-85619-120-3
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Numero OCLC:
412713830

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JAMES JOYCE'S collection of short stories, Dubliners, is the first of his four masterpieces. Gaslit. turn-of-the-century Dublin is the setting for these fifteen explorations of human behaviour, The stories, which end with the brilliantly elegiac 'The Dead'. are both simple and complex. Linked by theme, detail, character and place, together they form a timeless circular novel.

There is something more. Behind everything Joyce wrote lay a shadowy world — Dublin's customs, gossip, music, misery. its jokes and idioms. its sins and its social nuances. It was a world that had a unique physical, mental and literary landscape — one now almost forgotten. Here, in words and pictures, side by side with a new and carefully edited version of the work, this lost aspect of Dubliners is magnificently restored to view.

Desire, dishonesty, politics, religion, humour and even murder inform the stories. Overlooked ironies and unrecorded crises are rediscovered in these …

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Temoj

  • Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941.
  • City and town life -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction.
  • Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.