Dubliners

Dubliners by James Joyce is a collection of fifteen short stories. The stories reflect the Irish nationalism of the time and the search for national identity. One of the main themes of the stories is epiphany which is contrasted against paralysis. The characters struggle against restrictive and repetitive routines that lead to loneliness and unrequited love, but the characters are not able to escape from their mundane lives. Many of the characters also appear in Joyce's novel Ulysses.

• The Sisters
• An Encounter
• Araby
• Eveline
• After the Race
• Two Gallants
• The Boarding House
• A Little Cloud
• Counterparts
• Clay
• A Painful Case
• Ivy Day in the Committee Room
• A Mother
• Grace
• The Dead

The collection begins with youth oriented stories and continues as the characters age until the final story entitled "The Dead". The stories take place in the early twentieth century set in and around Dublin.

• • Mahalo's Guide to James Joyce
• Wikipedia: James Joyce
• Books and Writers: James Joyce
• TIME 100: James Joyce
• The James Joyce Society: 100+ Joyce Sites on the Web
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: The James Joyce Scholars' Collection