Dubliners
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Dubliners
| Author | James Joyce |
|---|---|
| Published | 1914 |
| Pages | 317 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Joyce’s fifteen stories of ordinary Dubliners, arranged from childhood to old age and ending with “The Dead,” often called the best short story in English. Nothing much happens on purpose — the meaning is carried by what characters notice and decline to say, which makes it the case for close attention. |
Dubliners
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, listed under Fiction in the Ages 13-99+ band.
About this edition
Joyce (1882-1941) finished the collection in 1907, but printers and publishers refused it for years over passages they feared were obscene or libellous; it finally appeared in 1914, before A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the 468-title curriculum this card came from; listed in the Ages 13-99+ band under Fiction.
- James Joyce — the author.
- Literature — the form itself, and what this book did to it.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.