The Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce 'Every night as I gazed up at
the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my
ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled
me with fear and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work' From a
child grappling with the death of a fallen priest to a young woman's dilemma over whether to
elope to Argentina with her lover to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little
he really knows about his wife these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in
Joyce's native Dublin to life. With Dubliners James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction using
a scrupulous deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental.
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