In the Library
Dubliners
James Joyce, 1914
- Form
- Form Collection
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Moderate
- Reading time
- Reading time 5 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 15
- Length
- Length 67k words
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About the book
A boy stands in the deserted gallery of a closed bazaar called Araby and understands that the girl he loves will not be saved by anything he can buy her. James Joyce gathered fifteen stories under this title in 1914, calling them moments of paralysis and arranging them through the stages of Dublin life: childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life. The collection took nine years to find a publisher; one Dublin printer destroyed the type, and Joyce fought through Maunsel and Roberts before Grant Richards finally relented. Eveline grips the railings at the dock; the canvasser in "A Painful Case" reads of a woman struck by a train; snow falls on every grave in Ireland. The city itself is the subject, and the city does not move.