Dubliners - James Joyce

Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin
life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional
themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication
until 1914. In the century since, his story "The Dead" has come to be seen as one
of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language
possesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are as beautifully turned and as greatly
admired. They remind us once again that James Joyce was not only modernism's chief
innovator but also one of its most intimate and poetic writers.

In this edition
the text has been revised in keeping with Joyce's wishes, and the original versions
of "The Sisters," "Eveline," and "After the Race" have been made available in an
appendix, along with Joyce's suppressed preface to the 1914 edition of Dubliners.