Literary Fiction

Dubliners

by James Joyce

Fifteen stories capture the paralysis and epiphanies of ordinary Dubliners at the turn of the twentieth century—from children to the elderly, dreamers to the defeated. Joyce employs revolutionary realism to illuminate moments of spiritual crisis, failed aspirations, and sudden illumination in everyday Irish life. A foundational modernist masterwork that redefined the possibilities of short fiction.

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