Fifteen linked stories of ordinary lives in early-1900s Dublin, each building to a quiet moment of paralysis or revelation. Joyce's precise portrait of a city and its spiritual stagnation.
Books mentioned in Dubliners (8)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: “on his shelves stood two volumes by Nietzsche: _Thus Spake Zarathustra_ and _The Gay Science_.”
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche: “on his shelves stood two volumes by Nietzsche: _Thus Spake Zarathustra_ and _The Gay Science_.”
The Abbot by Walter Scott: “Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.”
The Devout Communicant: “Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.”
Memoirs of Vidocq by Eugène François Vidocq: “Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “A picture of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet hung there and beside it was a picture of the two murdered princes in the Tower which Aunt Julia had worked in red, blue and brown wools when she was a girl.”
The Arab's Farewell to his Steed by Caroline Norton: “He asked me where I was going and, when I had told him a second time he asked me did I know The Arab's Farewell to his Steed.”
Michael Kramer by Gerhart Hauptmann: “In the desk lay a manuscript translation of Hauptmann's Michael Kramer, the stage directions of which were written in purple ink, and a little sheaf of papers held together by a brass pin.”
Books that mention Dubliners (2)
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “as was Joyce's Dubliners, though Joyce denied he had read Chekhov.”
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara: “finally he chose a copy of Dubliners: it was thin enough for him to grip, pliable enough to crack against a face”