Dubliners by James Joyce

arts · EN-US

A young boy falls in love with his friend's much older sister and is desperate to get her the perfect gift from the Araby Fair.After a party, a man discovers something he had never known about his wife, which has a devastating impact on their marriage.An ambitious mother schemes to get her daughter a role in a series of concerts.A drunken legal clerk takes out his frustrations on his helpless young son.These and other brilliant stories are contained in the collection entitled Dubliners. Published in 1914 during the height of the Irish Nationalist Movement, the fifteen stories are an invaluable record of the life and times of the middle class in Dublin. The strangest aspect of this book, which we value so much today, is that it was serially rejected by fifteen publishers before a Dublin publisher agreed to do so. Many publishers wanted certain passages to be cut, while others did not agree with the ending of some of the stories and wanted them rewritten. One of them even burned