Dubliners: Introduction by John Kelly-Quality Guarantee

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Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublinlife in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventionalthemes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publicationuntil 1914. In the century since, his story “The Dead” has come to be seen as oneof the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English languagepossesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are as beautifully turned and as greatlyadmired. They remind us once again that James Joyce was not only modernism’s chiefinnovator but also one of its most intimate and poetic writers.

In this editionthe text has been revised in keeping with Joyce’s wishes, and the original versionsof “The Sisters,” “Eveline,” and “After the Race” have been made available in anappendix, along with Joyce’s suppressed preface to the 1914 edition of Dubliners.