Dubliners, James Joyce
Dubliners, James Joyce
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Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Malachy McCourt, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick McCabe, Ciaran Hinds, T.P. McKenna, Brendan Coyle, Rejoycing Company, Camogie Inc.

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 11/11/2003


Synopsis

Dubliners - James Joyce's stories of his native homeland - performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland.  Unabridged.The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies.  First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorable poignant.As you listen to the cast of internationally famous stage and screen actors perform Dubliners, both the spiritually deadening atmosphere that drove Joyce from his homeland and the irresistible emotional pull it always kept on him to the end of his days become heartbreakingly beautiful.Dubliners is an audio experience that will only grow in richness with each time you listen.  The stories and performers are:Sisters - Frank McCourtAn Encounter - Patrick McCabeAraby - Colm MeaneyEveline - Dearbhla MolloyAfter the Race - Dan O'HerlihyTwo Gallants - Malachy McCourtThe Boarding House - Donal DonnellyA Little Cloud - Brendan CoyleCounterparts - Jim NortonClay - Sorcha CusackA Painful Case - Ciaran HindsIvy Day in the Committee Room - T.P. McKennaA Mother - Fionnula FlanaganGrace - Charles KeatingThe Dead - Stephen Rea 

About James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. One of the most influential writers of the 20th Century, Joyce's life was punctuated by poverty, critical controversy and self-imposed exile. Joyce was one of the pioneering figures of modernism and counted W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound amongst his earliest supporters. Before his death in 1941, Joyce had published Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; works that today are recognized as amongst the greatest achievements in literature.

About Malachy McCourt

Malachy McCourt, sixty-nine, is the father of five children, and the grandfather of three. He lives with his wife, Diana, in New York City.

About Patrick McCabe

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1955. His other novels include The Butcher Boy, The Dead School, and Call Me the Breeze. With director Neil Jordan, he co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of The Butcher Boy.

About Rejoycing Company

James Joyce (1882-1941) revolutionized twentieth-century writing with his use of the ""stream of consciousness"" technique.  While ingeniously innovative and experimental, he was also a keenly precise chronicler of the people, places, and sounds of his native Dublin.  His other works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan's Wake, and Ulysses, which is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on October 22, 2017

Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well, n......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 11, 2023

Dubliners is a collection of short stories published in 1914. The concluding story is The Dead, which the blurb on GR cites as “the best short story ever written.” We are told in a brief introduction that Joyce was a pioneer in popularizing the structure of the modern short story as focused on “a fl......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on October 04, 2021

In The Dead, the last story in this collection, Gabriel Conroy recounts an anecdote about his grandfather and his horse, Johnny, who used to walk in circles to drive the grinding stone in a mill. One day, the grandfather harnessed the horse and took him out to a military review. But Johnny, disorien......more

Goodreads review by Vit on August 11, 2023

Childhood… Old age… Ages in between… Coming of age… Dying… “Oh, quite peacefully, ma’am, said Eliza. You couldn’t tell when the breath went out of him. He had a beautiful death, God be praised.” The first amorous admiration from afar… I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever......more