Dubliners: James Joyce - Brossura

Joyce, James

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ISBN 10: 0241956854 ISBN 13: 9780241956854

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2012

Riassunto

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.'

From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.

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Recensione:

Joyce's early stories remain undimmed in their brilliance (Sunday Times)

Joyce celebrates the lives of ordinary men and women (Anthony Burgess Observer)

In Joyce's eyes Dublin is the whole world (J.G. Ballard)

L'autore:

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241956854
• ISBN 13: 9780241956854
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256