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I picked this book for Task 7 of 2017 Read Harder Challange : "Read a book published between 1900 and 1950" as this book is originally published in 1914.
I think I need to read more about the stories in this book as I couldn't really relate to them. it was really hard for me to keep up listening to the audio book as I lost interest very easily in the stories.
as the title offers it's made of 15 stories about Dubliners and their life. it portraits how Dublin was in early 1900, I don't know maybe if ...more
I think I need to read more about the stories in this book as I couldn't really relate to them. it was really hard for me to keep up listening to the audio book as I lost interest very easily in the stories.
as the title offers it's made of 15 stories about Dubliners and their life. it portraits how Dublin was in early 1900, I don't know maybe if ...more
I can't say I loved this book as much as I hoped I would, though there's a technical brilliance to the way he crafts his stories. I was hoping to love these stories as much as I've enjoyed the stories of master Irish story fiction writers Trevor and McGahern, but perhaps he paved the way for them.
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Um this was good obviously, but if you're not a contemporary of James Joyce you really shouldn't read editions of his work without footnotes, argh!
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Great short stories, and much easier to get through than any other James Joyce I've attempted! Reading it in Ireland helped.
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Jessica Haider
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