{"product_id":"dubliners-2","title":"Dubliners","description":"This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes the complete short story collection, a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce's use of textures, dialect, and symbols.\n\nEach of the beautifully written short stories in this collection precisely details a brief scene in the life of a resident of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Although the characters do not know each other, their experiences unfold along the same streets and often overlap thematically. Their tragedies mirror that of Ireland, a country struggling for political identity and held back, in Joyce's view, by rigid religious ideas and adherence to tradition.\n\nJoyce's great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city's complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories. Chronologically, too, the stories appear to progress; portrayals of youthful confusion and disillusionment in the opening story, \"The Sisters,\" become the haunting midlife meditations of \"The Dead.\" Like his masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce's Dubliners displays consummate control of nuances, emotions, and images.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1580491650\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1580491650.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:James Joyce\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Perfect Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41547273601082,"sku":"DBV.1580491650.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1580491650-0.jpg?v=1784689555","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/dubliners-2","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}