Dubliners: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Description

For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20th century-featuring a foreword by Colum McCann, the bestselling author ofLet the Great World SpinandTransAtlantic Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce'sDublinersis a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as "Araby," "Grace," and "The Dead," delve into the heart of the city of Joyce's birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners' speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their outer and inner lives.Dublinersis Joyce at his most accessible and most profound, and this edition is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's original wishes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

James Joyce was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Colum McCann (introducer) is the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and, most recently, TransAtlantic. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in New York.

"A hundred years on . . . Dubliners has been absorbed into our literary landscape, but in the early part of the twentieth century it was the sort of book that hadn't been seen much before, certainly from an Irish writer, and much of it shocked the conventional literary world. . . . [Joyce] was taking the lived landscape of his childhood and transforming it into something universal. . . . The stories contain some of the most beautiful sentences ever written in English." -Colum McCann, from the Foreword "A handsome deluxe edition." -The New York Times "A gorgeous new trade paperback edition [of] arguably the most important single-author short story collection in the English language." -KQED, "Great Lit Perfect for Summer Reading"