Dubliners (1914) - James Joyce
Public domain
Category: Anthology
Narrator: Andrew Scott
Tags: Anthology, Adults, Literature
Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins Release date: 09-26-19 Publisher: Penguin Audio, Published in 1914 after 10 years of argument with publishers over charges of obscenity, these stories were once described by Joyce as a chapter in the moral history of my country., Joyces first major work, written when he was only 25, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience., The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century. The stories were written at a time when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and cult
