James Joyce

A boy waits for a girl who never quite becomes his. A man drinks away an evening he'll regret. A woman stands at a dock, suitcase packed, and doesn't board the boat. Fifteen times, James Joyce's Dublin offers its characters a door out - and fifteen times, something closes it. Dubliners is the book that announced Joyce as a master of the short story before he became modernism's most towering novelist.
Written with surgical precision and devastating restraint, these stories chart the "paralysis" Joyce saw at the heart of his native city - ordinary men, women, and children caught between longing and inertia, epiphany and defeat. Quiet, exact, and unforgettable: the stories that changed what short fiction could do. Fifteen interconnected stories, culminating in the legendary "The Dead"The book that redefined modern short fictionEssential reading before tackling Ulysses Dublin never lets them leave.
It barely lets them notice.