Dubliners, James Joyce
Dubliners, James Joyce
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Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Connor Sheridan

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2017

Synopsis

These vivid, tightly focused observations about the life of Dublin's poorer classes originally made publishers uneasy: the stories contain unconventional themes and coarse language, and they mention actual people and places. Today, however, the stories are admired. They are considered to be masterful representations of Dublin done with economy and grace-representations, as Joyce himself once explained, of a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that give the Irish a good look at themselves. Although written for the Irish specifically, these stories-from the opening tale The Sisters to the final masterpiece The Dead-focus on moments of revelation that are common to all people.

About James Joyce

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. A contributor to the modernist avant-garde movement, he is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century and is best known for Ulysses (1922), a novel that parallels Homer's Odyssey using an array of literary styles.

About Connor Sheridan

Connor Sheridan graduated from The Guildford School of Acting. He has worked as an actor, singer, producer (film & theatre), and voiceover artist for both radio and audiobooks.

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

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on October 16, 2023

What I Would Do Differently: 1) Read the stories starting from the back and work my way forward. Before starting to read Dubliners (which I thought was pronounced Dub – line – ers. Oops!), I looked up this title in James Mustich’s 1,000 Books. It said that the best story was at the very end of the boo......more

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