Dubliners - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:James Joyce, Donal Donnelly (Narrator) 'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his fir... more »st publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'.
Joyce's aim was to tell the truth — to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country.
Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners — a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled — and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.
The sisters
An encounter
Araby
Eveline
After the race
Two gallants
The boarding house
A little cloud
Counterparts
Clay
A painful case
Ivy day in the committee room
A mother
Grace
The dead
Narrated by Donal Donnelly. 8 compact discs (9.25 hr.)« less