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Short stories · 1914

Dubliners

James Joyce

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Short stories · 1914 · Irish · Modern

Dubliners

James Joyce

Fifteen stories trace ordinary lives in Dublin.

ModernismRealismParalysisCityEpiphany

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Epiphanies disclose constraints without necessarily removing them. The collection's progression from childhood toward public and marital life makes paralysis social as well as personal.

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