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    Dubliners by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Dubliners by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Dubliners by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Dubliners by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Dubliners with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce, a collection of 15 short stories which builds up an engaging depiction of life for Dublin’s middle classes. The stories explore their characters’ thwarted ambitions, turbulent relationships with family and friends and often-fraught relationship with their country at a time when Irish nationalism was mounting and Ireland was seeking a sense of identity. James Joyce was an Irish writer, and is widely recognised as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is known in particular for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and his short story collection Dubliners.

    Find out everything you need to know about Dubliners in a fraction of the time!

    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:
    • A complete plot summary
    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMar 28, 2019
    ISBN9782808015875
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      Dubliners by James Joyce (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      JAMES JOYCE

      IRISH NOVELIST, POET, AND SHORT STORY WRITER

      Born in Dublin in 1882.

      Died in Zurich in 1941.

      Notable works:

      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), novel

      Ulysses (1922), novel

      Finnegans Wake (1939), novel

      James Joyce was born into a financially unstable middle-class Irish Catholic family. He was the eldest of ten siblings, two of whom died. He studied at two Jesuit schools, then went to university in Dublin, before studying medicine in Paris. After giving up his degree, Joyce went home to be with his dying mother, but refused to kneel and pray at her deathbed. He met his future wife Nora Barnacle in 1904, although they did not marry until 1931. Joyce and Nora moved to Zurich, then Trieste, and had two children, George and Lucia. Despite crippling eye problems, he built a reputation for himself as an avant-garde writer, often experimenting with stream-of-consciousness styles. Although Joyce gave up his Catholic faith, he continued to be influenced by religious imagery and ideas. He fled the Nazi occupation of France and moved back to Zurich in 1940, where he died after an operation in 1941.

      DUBLINERS

      SHORT STORY COLLECTION FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF EVERYDAY DUBLINERS

      Genre: short story collection

      Reference edition: Joyce, J (1992) Dubliners. London: Minerva.

      1stedition: 1914

      Themes: naturalism, everyday life, Irish nationalism, religion, the class system, marriage

      Dubliners (1914) is a collection of 15 short stories on separate subjects that together build up a picture of the everyday dramas and hypocrisies of life for Dublin’s middle classes. The stories reflect the anxieties of a

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