Dubliners

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.’From a chil ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.’From a child coming to terms with the death of a priest to a young woman torn between leading an uneventful life in Dublin and fleeing Ireland with her lover, these fifteen stories bring to life the day-to-day existence of ordinary Dubliners in the early years of the twentieth century. With brutal realism, Joyce lays bare the struggles and desires of the Irish middle classes in a compelling and unique exploratio