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James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it. This book holds none of the difficulties of Joyce's later novels, such as Ulysses, yet in its way it is just as radical. These stories introduce us to the city which fed Joyce's entire creative output, and to many of the characters who made it such a well of literary inspiration.

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Recommend this read by an older actor famous for playing the bishop in father Ted.

Accessible yet Joycian

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Absolutely adore the stories. Beautifully narrated by Jim Norton who is simply amazing and does a stellar job with the accents and in conveying the humour present in the dialogue of some of the characters. Will listen again and again. The musical excerpts in between each story are truly enchanting. Plunges you straight into Joyce's Ireland. What a masterpiece. I love this audiobook so much I even purchased the CDs to add to my already extensive collection. Dubliners is a great way to get acquainted with James Joyce, and can be used, I think, as a stepping stone for the author's other works such as Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the daunting Ulysses. Highly recommended! If you are able to find a good used copy of the out-of-print Illustrated Edition with Annotations by John Wyse Jackson, go ahead and buy. You will not regret it. It contains so much information and the illustrations will enhance your comprehension of what is surely one of the best collection of short stories of the 20th century. I also used the Oxford World's Classics edition and York Notes to get the most out of my reading. It is hard to believe that Joyce had difficulty having his work published,

One of the best audiobooks in my collection

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Marvelous in every way. JIm Norton is a wonder, reading what is probably the finest collection of stories ever written.

Marvellous!

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Joyce doen't need me to spray the greatness of his writing still further. It goes without saying. But to make him as easily available as Jim Norton does takes a special talent. As with his outstanding reading, performing really, of Ulysses, he is utterly, convincingly in character in these stories. His feeling for sound, poetic motion and the nuances of personality is faultless.

Superb rendering of superb writing

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This is a wonderful rendering of an all time classic. Norton is superb at capturing all the nuances of Irish accents, from working class Dublin to rural Galway, from 'the quality' to the working man and woman. More importantly, he invests the characters with a deep humanity that speaks to the soul. A beautiful piece of work.

Joyce as he should be.

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