Recommended by David Grossman, and 1 others. See all reviews
Ranked #1 in Irish, Ranked #3 in Ireland — see more rankings.
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Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as “Araby,” “Grace,” and “The Dead,” delve into the heart of the city of Joyce’s birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners’ speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their... more
Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as “Araby,” “Grace,” and “The Dead,” delve into the heart of the city of Joyce’s birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners’ speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their... more
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David Grossman It is the perfect story—you can almost touch the characters, and yet it is told from a remote point of view, from a distance but not without affection (Source)
Rankings by Category
Dubliners is ranked in the following categories:
- #63 in 20th Century
- #29 in Athens
- #3 in Dublin
- #71 in Folio Society
- #52 in Gin
- #82 in Graduate School
- #8 in Modernism
- #7 in Modernist
- #61 in Project Gutenberg
- #20 in Short
- #6 in Short Stories
- #7 in Story
- #32 in University