![]() ![]() Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Dubliners features an afterword by dramatist Peter Harness.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Considered at the time as a literary experiment, Dubliners contains moments of joy, fear, grief, love and loss, which combine to form one of the most complete depictions of a city ever written, and the stories remain as refreshingly original and surprising in this century as they did in the last. James Joyce was twenty-five years old when he wrote this collection of short stories, among which 'The Dead' is probably the most famous. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as collections of his poetry. Themes within the stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. James Joyce (1882 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet, teacher, regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. ![]()
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