“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

A boy attends a funeral for a priest; a young woman decides if she should run off with a sailor; a group of friends tries to help an alcoholic by inviting him to a religious retreat; two con men find a maid to help them steal from her employer. A glimpse into the lives of ordinary people living in Dublin, each one of the 15 short stories in this collection focuses on a moment of epiphany – a realization that profoundly affects a person’s life.

Simple on the surface, yet full of hidden meaning, Dubliners was submitted 18 times to 15 different publishers before it was released in 1914. Many of the characters found in these stories also appear in another of Joyce’s works, Ulysses.

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