Book description
With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart.
'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself
the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my
ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent
and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be
nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work'
From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young
woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to
the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really
knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism
of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life. With Dubliners,
James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan
realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
