oyce's first major work, written .when he .was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time.
Dubliners is a sequence of stories depicting middle- class Catholic life in Dublin. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience. --back cover