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No. 26 · The Well-Read 30DublinersJames Joyce1914

Fiction · 1914

Dubliners

James Joyce

Fifteen stories catch people across Dublin at moments of embarrassment, recognition, paralysis, tenderness, and escape.

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Joyce makes ordinary lives feel exact and electric, ending with one of the great closing movements in short fiction.

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  • paralysis
  • epiphany
  • city life
  • memory

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