Dubliners: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by James Joyce

Dubliners: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by James JoycePerhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century and a moral history of a nation and a people whose "golden age" has passed. His richly drawn characters at once intensely Irish and utterly universal may forever haunt the reader. In mesmerizing writing rich with evocative imagery, Joyce delves into the heart

The result was a book that became an international phenomenon

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author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS'

The view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window on urban life all over the world

we have a giant of literature living among us

Axel Scheffler and Shaun Tan

women - especially those with power or influence - were often subjected to rumour

preferring the company of animals to people

hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father

Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land

revealing what we have learned about the mysteries of the Universe

An exhausted nurse struggles to let go