Dubliners

Joyce’s stories remain undimmed in their brilliance * Sunday Times *Dubliners is interested in all of us, rich and poor, old and young, men and women. It’s filled with humour and love, pain and loss. Above all, it rings out with a love of these streets, of the voices of the people who inhabit them – John BoyneTruly exhilarating…a vivid, detailed and breathtaking portrait of a city and its citizens * Irish Times *

James Joyce (Author)

James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 in Dublin. He studied modern languages at University College, Dublin. After graduating, Joyce moved to Paris for a brief period in 1902. In 1904 Joyce met Nora Barnacle, with whom he would spend the rest of his life, and they moved to Europe and settled in Trieste where Joyce worked as a teacher.

His first published work was a book of poems called Chamber Music (1907). This was followed by Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and the play Exiles (1918). In 1915, the First World War forced Joyce and Nora and their two children to move to Zurich. Joyce’s most famous novel, Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922. In the same year, he started work on his last great book, Finnegan’s Wake (1939). James Joyce died in Zurich on 13 January 1941.

John Banville (Introducer)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books include Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter (which was filmed for Channel 4), Mefisto, and The Book of Evidence (which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and won the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award). John Banville is literary editor of the Irish Times and lives in London with his wife and two sons.

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