Dubliners

Dubliners is a seminal collection of fifteen short stories by Irish modernist James Joyce, first published in 1914. Regarded as one of the most important works in modernist literature, the collection presents a penetrating portrait of early 20th-century Dublin society and functions as a microcosm of Irish middle-class life under British colonial rule.

Each story explores moments of epiphany—what Joyce referred to as "sudden spiritual manifestation"—experienced by ordinary people. The collect...