{"product_id":"2940169442632","title":"Dubliners (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDubliners\u003c\/b\u003e was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's \u003cb\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/b\u003e began to appear in the journal \u003cb\u003eEgoist\u003c\/b\u003e under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in \u003cb\u003eDubliners\u003c\/b\u003e might be incidents from a draft of \u003cb\u003ePortrait of the Artist\u003c\/b\u003e, and many of the characters who figure in \u003cb\u003eUlysses\u003c\/b\u003e have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English languageamp;mdash;an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from \"stories of my childhood\" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104516358384,"sku":"2940169442632","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169442632_p0.jpg?v=1763682783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169442632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}