Dubliners Av James Joyce

<p><b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>Dubliners </i>by James Joyce<br></b><br><b>''Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word <i>paralysis</i>. 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''</b><br><br>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 <i>Dubliners</i>, James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental.<br><br>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighte