| Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Joyce, James (Author), Scholes, Robert (Editor), Litz, A. Walton (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140247742 ISBN-13: 9780140247749 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1996 Annotation: In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96002650 |
| Series: Viking Critical Library |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.78 lbs) 512 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 61383 Reading Level: 8.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce's groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed preface to Dubliners. With the fifteen stories in Dubliners Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest (The Sisters), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of Two Gallants, or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife (The Dead), Joyce takes narrative art to places it had never been before. |