James Joyce

Broschiertes Buch

Dubliners

Beschreibung

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 the author's native Dublin to life.

Autor

James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. He was nonetheless educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all of his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich, on 13 January 1941.

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Produktdetails

• The Penguin English Library
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9780141199627
• ISBN-10: 0141199628
• Artikelnr.: 34516750