James Joyces the Dubliners

by John Wyse Jackson

Genres: Classics, Fiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Simon Ostermeyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terrific book that paints a picture of a city going through some significant change while still effectively developing real people and emotionally evoking passages throughout the short stories. Some great modern-day parallels in the plots. Would give it 4 and a half if I could.

[Sjoerd · Rating 3 out of 5]

Am I rating Dubliners the book, or this specific version and it's annotations? The last thing. Because I read the actual collection separately and after each story took this book and reread the story quickly while looking up the annotations.

Some of them were funny, commenting on the story, explaining some obscure Joycean jokes, complaining about scenteces, describing in detail the layout of Dublin and exact locations.

I did enjoy it, but partially. I haven't read anything else yet, and only have a generic idea about Portrait and Ulysses. Also I haven't read Paradise Lost, Odessey or the Divine Comedy yet. So even with the annotations a lot is lost on me.

But that makes me wonder how much more there is to get from these stories.

The includes pictures were to grainy, but the afterwords for every story were great even though they were sometimes a bit pompous.

[Elliot Techie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I adored this little look into Irish history, and what it was like before partition. The idea of it just being an anthology of different people’s lives really appeals to me. It’s very much a book about people, what happens to them doesn’t really matter. It’s hard to pick a favourite story when it all flows together so beautifully like poetry. It reminds me of my granddad, which is definitely a plus.

[Mad Stork · Rating 5 out of 5]

]Amazing writing and very interesting distillment of a time and place. “His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling l, like the descent of their last end upon all the living and the dead.” One of the best written sentences . Sentences like this through out though “The Dead” was certainly the best. Finished 11/10/20.

[Lorenzo Scarafia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book on human introspection.

[Maddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short look into the lives of the Irish middle-class in the early 20th century, some enthralling and some astonishingly dull.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely wonderful..

[Fatima Zohra · Rating 3 out of 5]

what makes life worth living is family... yes , most of people think so ...yet the most amazing thing that keeps anyone clinging to life is the feelings , determination and memories .

[sunflowerbooknook · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exceptional !!! This book gets at least 8 stars love James Joyce can't wait to read more of his books ❤

[Sarah Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning prose. A succinct and clear vision of life in Ireland in Joyce's time.

[Jessjurick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book changed the way I viewed literature. The intricacies of the characters and the subtle symbolism throughout each vignette is riveting. Joyce does an amazing job of creating suspense and tension in every day occurrences that seem dull at first, but make up the fabric of our every day thrills and anxieties.

[Gabriella · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book and obviusely the final Story it is the most interesting, maybe the only interesting at all.
I really do not appreciate stories that are stick on a book, I can't follow up the line. It is a good manuscript but I fatigued to understand it

[Corrijean · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the style and tone of the stories.

[Reese Forbes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do not expect this to be Ulysses - it is highly depressing

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is well written, snippets of life in a certain time with people who are timeless.