Dubliners

James Joyce’s fifteen stories of Dublin life at the turn of the twentieth century, from childhood to maturity, ending with “The Dead”, set at a family party on the feast of the Epiphany.

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• I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

  ArabyIn context

  • Love

• Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

  ArabyIn context

  • Anger
  • Pride

• She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat

  The Boarding HouseIn context

  • Morality

• He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.

  A Painful CaseIn context

  • Character

• Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

  A Painful CaseIn context

  • Friendship
  • Love
  • Sex

• One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  “The Dead”In context

  • Age
  • Life & Death

• His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

  The Dead (2 of 2)In context

  • Life & Death

Contents

1. The Sisters
2. An Encounter
3. Araby
4. Eveline
5. After the Race
6. Two Gallants
7. The Boarding House
8. A Little Cloud
9. Counterparts
10. Clay
11. A Painful Case
12. Ivy Day in the Committee Room
13. A Mother
14. Grace
15. The Dead (1 of 2)
16. The Dead (2 of 2)