VIVI Classics Dubliners

Despite abandoning Ireland at 20 for a lifetime of self-imposed exile, James Joyce seemed devoted to immortalizing his homeland in his stylistically revolutionary writings. Nowhere is he more accessible than in this 1914 collection of 15 stories set in Dublin-here in a handsome compact edition-offering a kaleidoscopic view of priests and politicians, children and old maids, con men and lovers. From a young boy's encounter with death in "The Sisters" to the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," and an uprooted intellectual discovering how little he really knows about his wife in Joyce's masterpiece "The Dead," he conveys blasphemous and sacramental truths in his deadpan realism.